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Three-day course lifts pupil scores

A new study has revealed pupils taking the controversial European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) qualification on average score the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Mystery of the missing expert reports

Expert reports commissioned in the run-up to the last general election are still nowhere to be seen – despite…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Morgan U-turn: New plan puts schools in Labour areas at greatest risk of forced academisation

Councils potentially at risk of being branded as failing and having all their schools converted into academies – under…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Government u-turns on forced academisation plan

The government has abandoned plans to force all schools to become academies, the government has confirmed. This is a u-turn on proposals…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Disqualification by association rules for schools face axe

Controversial safeguarding rules which caused teachers to be unnecessarily suspended from work could be scrapped, the government has announced. The…

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Nick Linford
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Oldham College pulls out of academy sponsorship

A college has severed its ties with two academies because it says it is no longer “feasible” to sponsor…

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Nicky Phillips


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Headteachers expose government school funding claim

Headteachers are taking to Twitter as part of a campaign to expose as false the government’s claim that school…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Conservative councillors promise grammar expansions if elected

Several local authorities bordering an area with selective schools have said they would welcome grammar “annexes” in their areas,…

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Nicky Phillips
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New national scheme will place ‘interns’ in classrooms

Unions fear that a national scheme to place teaching interns into classrooms will be used as a cost-cutting device….

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Nicky Phillips
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Academy trust makes support staff across 21 schools reapply for jobs

An academy trust has told more than 100 staff across its schools they face losing or having to reapply…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Mental health tsar Natasha Devon axed by government

The Department for Education (DfE) has axed its mental health tsar as the government brings in a “champion” to…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Gibb digs in on primary tests after day of protests

The government has refused to change primary tests in response to this week’s unprecedented parent protests, backed by tens…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips