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DfE told its accounts lack ‘truth and fairness’ for second year running

The government’s spending watchdog has issued an adverse opinion on the Department for Education’s accounts for the second year…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government launches pro-grammar schools ‘campaign’ just days after official consultation closes

The government is seeking the backing of its own party members and supporters for a ‘campaign’ in favour of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government’s computing revolution is excluding girls and poorer pupils, report finds

The government’s school computing revolution has cut off girls and poorer pupils from achieving vital technology qualifications, a new…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Councils run crisis communications classes for schools as trusts up their PR focus

Councils are running classes for school managers on how to deal with the media in a crisis, while academy…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Errors in exam papers tripled this year, Ofqual report reveals

The number of ‘material errors’ in the design of A level and GCSE exam papers has more than tripled…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Lodgers move into disused Black Country UTC

Young professionals are living in a disused Walsall university technical college site, which is not the only failed college…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Councils must estimate free school pupil numbers under funding change

Local authorities will now have to estimate how many pupils move to certain free schools opening in their area…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Academy trusts told to avoid isolated academies

The government has issued its firmest statement yet that trusts should avoid running geographically isolated schools, raising serious questions…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Roger Taylor appointed as new chair of exams regulator Ofqual

Former journalist and Careers and Enterprise Company adviser Roger Taylor will replace Amanda Spielman as the chair of the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust has ‘let down pupils’

One of England’s largest multi-academy trusts has been warned it has “let down pupils over a number of years”…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Councils face £600m blackhole in special needs funding

More than half a billion pounds must be found by 2025 to top up an already unsustainable special needs…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Half of new special free schools specialise in autism

Autism-specific schools make up almost half of all special needs free schools. The “more complex” requirements of autistic pupils…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg