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Teaching schools face cash shortage if funding halted

Teaching schools would be “severely vulnerable” if government funding were to stop, despite an expectation that many of the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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What happened to the School Food Plan

The group tasked with supporting the implementation of a £16 million school food improvement plan has shut up shop…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Heads want parent RE opt-out overturned

The legal right of parents to pull their children out of religious education should be removed, headteachers have said….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Scrap KS1 tests and create ‘working’ baseline, says union leader

A working baseline test should be introduced for reception pupils and statutory key stage 1 assessment should be “scrapped…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Russell Hobby: Heads should be ‘in the classroom, not the boardroom’

Plans to convert all schools into academies risk creating “boom times for lawyers, auditors and consultants” while teachers struggle,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Academy chain fights for right to name feeder schools

A secondary academy is fighting to give preference to children attending primary schools operated by its trust rather than…

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Headteachers consider industrial action over academies plan

Headteachers will consider industrial action over a bid to turn all schools into academies after a union passed a motion opposing…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Morgan to manipulate primary floor standards

The number of primary schools which fall below government floor standards this year will be in the hundreds rather…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Nicky Morgan rejects ‘sexist’ question about Nick Gibb role

A sexism row has erupted between Nicky Morgan and a headteacher after she was quizzed on the balance of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Council faces £5.6m bill for free school

Hertfordshire county council has been forced to stump up cash for an expensive new free school or face a…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Academy head pilots super-size classes of 60

Super-size classes of 60 pupils with a single experienced teacher will be piloted next year by one of the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Tory shires rebel against plan for academies

Conservative councils are opposing the government’s academisation plans, adding their voices to a growing number of rebelling local authorities….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips