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Home education law weaknesses ‘exploited’ by illegal schools, Wilshaw warns

Weaknesses in current legislation on home-schooling are being exploited by illegal schools, which may be putting children at “significant…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Humanists launch whistleblowing site for faith school pupils

A new whistleblowing website opens today to allow pupils to report issues at faith schools. The Faith Schoolers Anonymous…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Academies and sponsors – who’s being approved (Feb 2016)

The government has released the decisions made by headteacher boards between January 16 and February 15. The boards are…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Co-location allows free schools to open

New schools are being forced to share buildings next year as the government runs into yet more site problems…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Baseline test sign-up plummets

The baseline assessment provider chosen by more than half of England’s primary schools last year is expecting its numbers…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Delays threaten to disrupt refugees’ schooling

Pressure is mounting on the government to allow hundreds of unaccompanied refugee children into the country before September, after…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Government plans to change term-time holiday law

The government will look to change the law on term-time holidays, after the high court backed a father who…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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More primaries set to fall below floor standards after Morgan stats blunder

The number of primary schools set to be deemed as “failing” this year by falling below government floor standards is…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New apprentice rules will squeeze school finances

Large schools and multi-academy trusts will be forced to employ new apprentices every year after new rules passed into…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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College of Teaching has training oversight ambitions

The proposed College of Teaching wants to be the “gatekeeper of standards for teacher training”, Angela McFarlane (pictured), a…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Teach First goes cross-country

Top graduates training under the Teach First scheme are less likely to be placed in London schools as the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Steiner school in financial notices to improve

A Steiner school that failed to submit its annual accounts and a university technical college and academy trust with…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips