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Schools careers benchmarks are not accountability measure

Eight “benchmarks” for careers advice will form part of new statutory guidance for schools, but the academic behind them…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Financial warning for second UTC

Buckinghamshire’s university technical college has become the second of the institutions to be warned recently about its finances after…

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Nicky Phillips
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Academy expansions – who’s been approved (Feb 2016)

Regional schools commissioners have approved nearly 20 applications for academies to up their pupil numbers or expand their age…

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Nicky Phillips
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Call for more school funding to help northern schools

Teach First and IPPR North are calling on policy makers to use reform of the schools funding formula to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Alternative provision academy to offer International Baccalaureate

A new post-16 academy will become the first alternative provision (AP) school in the country to offer the International…

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Nicky Phillips
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Regional Schools Commissioner Pank Patel steps down to become academy head

Pank Patel, Regional Schools Commissioner for the West Midlands, is stepping down from his post to take up leadership…

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Nick Linford


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Changes to UCAS data rules cause problems for Russell Group uni

A Russell group university has been blocked from accessing confidential pupil information from the government after it claimed it…

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Nicky Phillips
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Schools ban watches to outsmart exam cheats

Teachers should be on high alert for technology-aided cheating during this summer’s exams after a scam involving cameras and…

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Nicky Phillips
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Government confirm £300m available for academy conversion – the rest will go to existing trusts

Half of the £600 million earmarked to support the conversion of schools into academies will be handed to existing…

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Nicky Phillips
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Head denies creating a ‘technical academy’ is a form of streaming

An all-through trust that will give pupils a “choice” between two schools offering a different “type of teaching” once…

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Nicky Phillips
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Schools at risk of losing premises after charity defaults

Two schools have been put at “significant risk” of losing their shared building and playing fields after the charity…

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Nicky Phillips
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Government plans ‘super SCITT’ for MFL teacher training crisis

A “super” school-led scheme to train language teachers is the latest government plan to ease staff shortages. Schools Week…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips