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ASCL leadership election: Geoff Barton wins landslide victory

Geoff Barton, the popular headteacher and anti-establishment challenger in the race to be the new leader of the Association of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Free school to open above Lidl store after 3 years ‘in portacabins’

A primary school will re-open above a Lidl supermarket in a move experts say shows the “huge need” for…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Government considers PISA tests for 5 year olds

The government is considering taking part in a pilot of tablet-based tests for some of the youngest children in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ministers consider new ‘national selection test’ to replace 11-plus

Ministers are considering a new “national selection test” to replace the 11-plus, with a ‘selective education team’ led by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EBacc ‘increases arts subject entries’ but teacher numbers fall

The EBacc has prompted a rise in pupils taking at least one arts subject at GCSE – but the number…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Greater Manchester is seventh UTC to announce closure

The Greater Manchester University Technical College (UTC) will close at the end of this year, becoming the seventh of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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RSC Vicky Beer resigns to head new academy trust

Vicky Beer, regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire, is stepping down after less than a year and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Robots should replace school receptionists, claims think tank

Robots should replace hundreds of workers at the Department for Education, a think tank has suggested, claiming the government…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Schools call on MPs to fight ‘grossly unfair’ Progress 8

School leaders want MPs to fight the government’s “grossly unfair and discriminatory” Progress 8 measure that will award three…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Department for Education indefinitely delays move to new offices

The Department for Education’s plan to save £19 million a year by moving offices has been indefinitely postponed, Schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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More multi-academy trusts naming their own feeder primaries

Multi-academy leaders are more frequently naming primary schools within their trust as feeder schools for their secondaries, despite little…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Top DfE civil servant blames poor communication for an accounting blunder

The Department for Education’s top civil servant has admitted that better communication could have solved an administrative error that…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker