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Charge parents £500 to plug school funding gap, says leading head

State schools should consider emulating independent schools and “work for profit” by charging parents a “premium”, a leading headteacher…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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RSC Guide: Rebecca Clark, South-west England

It’s been two years since the first regional schools commissioners and their headteacher boards were appointed. To keep you…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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RSC Guide: Tim Coulson, East of England and north-east London

It’s been two years since the first regional schools commissioners and their headteacher boards were appointed. To keep you…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Affluent schools more likely to improve Ofsted grade, and 3 other key findings from EPI Ofsted report

The Education Policy Institute has released a major piece of research based on Ofsted inspection outcomes and school performance…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School leader development charities rebrand as Ambition School Leadership

Two education charities that provide training courses to develop future school leaders have merged and re-branded as Ambition School…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Schools boost Ofsted grades despite deteriorating performance, report finds

More than one in ten ‘good’ secondary schools were promoted to outstanding grades by Ofsted despite having a “significant…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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DfE ordered to publish landmark grammar school expansion application

The Department for Education has been ordered to release the application form lodged by a Kent grammar school before…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teach First should shun London to boost social mobility

Training provider Teach First should ditch London and instead place its top graduates into schools in the country’s ten…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Panel to hear appeal of ‘superhead’ Jo Shuter’s teaching ban next week

A government disciplinary panel will meet next week to decide whether to strike off a teaching ban for a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teach languages for three hours per week, report demands

Schools should devote three hours of curriculum time per week to drag modern foreign languages out of “crisis”, a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Schools to foot bill as councils top-slice apprenticeship levy

Schools across England are being told by councils that they must foot the bill for the government’s apprenticeship levy,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools lack guidance on how to handle pupil exclusions

Guidance on pupil exclusions originally published in December 2014 and set for implementation in January 2015 was pulled from…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg