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National funding formula warning from school leaders

School headteachers and business managers have joined forces to express their fears and aspirations about plans for a new…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Primary schools stop pupils reading above their level

Primary teachers and parents say that schools are insisting pupils not be taught material above their expected level. Discussions…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Councils consider their tactics in academies battle

Councils are beginning to mobilise against the government’s all-out academisation plans, with some aiming to retain their role in…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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DfE pays civil servants £1.7m in bonuses

The Department for Education (DfE) paid out £1.7 million in bonuses last year – with top civil servants pocketing…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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The 4 things academies will have to prove to open a sixth form

The government has updated its guidance for open academies trying to make “significant changes”. The release follows a campaign by…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Baseline test provider criticises ‘embarrassing policy cock-up’

Providers of baseline reception tests say the government’s jettisoning of the progress measure is an “embarrassing policy cock-up”. The…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Superheads: the true cost to schools

Superheads may lift results when they take over failing schools, but what happens when they leave? Laura McInerney reports…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Early years teacher training courses withdrawn

Two universities have pulled their early years teacher training courses just five months before the start of the next…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Perry Beeches saga: who was involved

As schools broke up for Easter, the government published the explosive findings of its investigation into financial mismanagement at…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Ofsted’s top primaries ‘socially selective’

Schools with the best Ofsted ratings are more likely to socially select their pupils from higher-income families, a new…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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IFS: Spending gap between rich and poor schools has doubled in 20 years

The gap in spending on pupils between the poorest and richest schools in England has doubled over the past…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New academies will not be forced to join multi-academy trusts

Successful schools will not be forced to join multi-academy trusts, Nicky Morgan has confirmed, but they will have to…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips