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Low ratings for grammar-sponsored academies

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads leave large multi-academy trusts faster than other school types

Falling retenion rates mean one in ten secondary headteachers now leave their roles every year, a new analysis has…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Private school fees rise again, and 3 more ISC census findings

The Independent Schools Council has today published its annual census. Schools Week has the key findings: 1. Private school…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Justine Greening pulls out of NAHT conference

Justine Greening will not address the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teachers this weekend after her…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads back CofE call to ban parents withdrawing children from RE

Headteachers have backed Church of England plans to ban parents from withdrawing their pupils from religious education, claiming it…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Open new selective schools in MATs only, urges Carmichael

New selective schools should only be allowed within multi-academy trusts so that youngsters can “move around” between vocational and…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg


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Replace bursaries with ‘forgivable fees’ to boost teacher numbers, report claims

Teacher training bursaries should be scrapped in place of “forgivable” tuition fees for teaching graduates who stick in the…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Funding system for new schools ‘increasingly incoherent’, say MPs

Funding for new schools is delivered through an “increasingly incoherent” system, with the government frequently paying “over the odds” for sites…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Labour pledges to bring back EMA with corporation tax hike

Labour will raise corporation tax to fund the re-introduction of the education maintenance allowance, the party has revealed today….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£100k per council would abolish holiday hunger, MPs claim

A cross-parliamentary group of MPs have said handing every local authority just over £100,000 a year would end holiday…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Corbyn 4-day bank holiday pledge ‘includes teachers’

A pledge by Jeremy Corbyn to give workers an additional four national holidays per year will reduce the school…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE to underwrite salary for free school ‘heads in waiting’ – and could even employ them in department

The Department for Education has published a pledge to support the founding of new free schools by underwriting the…

John Dickens
John Dickens