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KS2 grammar test published online in second exam breach

Today’s key stage 2 English test has been leaked online, adding to the chaos surrounding standardised testing in England after…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Morgan to define ‘underperforming’ councils with consultation and vote

The definition of “underperforming” councils that will be used to force schools to convert to academies will be set out…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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A quarter of year 6 pupils are stressed about SATs

Twenty-seven per cent of children are “stressed” about their SATs, but only 10 per cent “hate” the tests, reveals a survey of year 6 pupils…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Brexit vote threatens school building loans

Loans totalling hundreds of millions of pounds to build new schools in the UK could dry up should the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Government’s £8m academy and free school bail-out

The government has handed out more than £8 million in emergency funding to cash-strapped schools in the past three…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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School dodges closure by converting to academy

A middle school has dodged closure after gaining an academy conversion order from its regional schools commissioner (RSC) –…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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ECDL lifts GCSE grades, but Ofqual uneasy

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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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…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford