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Booming private tuition stretches attainment gap

The burgeoning private tuition market, now worth up to £2 billion a year, is stretching the attainment gap between…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofqual confirms new method for allocating top GCSE grades

Ofqual has confirmed it will adopt a new “fairer” approach to GCSE top grades after its proposed method won the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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5 things we learned from the education committee’s MATs hearing

The House of Commons education committee has spent the morning grilling academics, think tank leaders and faith school bosses…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Academy results boost ‘tapers away to zero’, study finds

Improvements in schools’ results after they become sponsored academies cannot be attributed to the actions of their sponsors, a…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Grammar schools: Does photographed document reveal government plans?

The government is under pressure to clarify its plans for new grammar schools after a memo photographed in Downing…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools should be ‘positive about masculinity’, claims Conservative MP

Schools should be “positive about masculinity” and not try to “make boys something they are not”, a Conservative MP…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Former schools minister and ex-Ofsted chair to advise New Schools Network

The former schools minister David Laws and ex-Ofsted chair Sally Morgan are among 16 new appointments to the New Schools…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Wilshaw: Return to grammar schools a ‘profoundly retrograde step’

Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has taken aim at government plans to lift the ban on new grammar schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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NUT ‘can envisage’ strikes this term

The new leader of the National Union of Teachers has said he “can envisage” further walk-outs by teachers this term…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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New test for 18,000 Year 11 pupils to make GCSE grading more accurate

The new national reference tests will go-ahead and be taken for the first time by roughly 18,000 students in…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Councils launch investigation after KS2 results show worrying trend

Councils will team up to investigate large gaps between their pupils’ key stage 2 writing and reading results amid…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Independent schools ‘uneasy’ as employers urged to ask job applicants for education background

Independent schools have challenged a leading government commission after it called on employers to collect data on the educational…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker