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Cancelled Building Schools for the Future linked to worse GCSE results

Pupil performance fell at schools where the coalition government cancelled new school buildings, new research has shown. But it…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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‘Dog’s breakfast’ of primary assessment is increasing teacher workload

Constant changes by the government to assessment arrangements for this year’s end-of-primary key stage tests are a “dog’s breakfast”…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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EXCLUSIVE: Ark’s new ‘Assembly’ service seeks to help edu-tech start ups

Successful academy chain Ark is launching a new cloud-based service today to break open the market for start-up education…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Primary schools ‘disapply’ up to third of pupils from their official statistics

Schools are having up to a third of their pupils’ key stage 2 (KS2) results removed from the published…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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EXCLUSIVE: Cambridge university secret briefing over new admissions tests

The University of Cambridge held a secret briefing for selected teachers this week over its plans to bring back…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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1,234 or 1 234? Primary pupils must interpret commas in new maths tests

The humble comma, often misused in written language, will make its mark in maths tests this year, causing potential problems…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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BETT Day Two: Ofsted ‘can’t check’ filtering of radicalisation websites; unaffordable ICT; and ‘fairy godfather’ experts.

  Education secretary Nicky Morgan said last month all schools will be required to protect children from harm online…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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The 5 Most Interesting Things We Noticed In Today’s GCSE Performance Data

GCSE performance tables are out today. We have put together our league tables highlighting the schools doing the best…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Nicky Morgan: New careers company won’t force mentors on schools

Schools will not have business mentors forced upon them by the government’s new careers company, Nicky Morgan has confirmed….

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Free schools struggle to meet national GCSE standards

The performance of free schools in this year’s GCSEs is mixed – with half of the schools failing to…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Alternative GCSE League Tables 2016: Which schools do best for the poorest pupils?

League tables for schools and colleges were released today by the Department for Education. Schools Week brings back its…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Bett 2016, Day One: Nicky Morgan tells teachers to use technology to reduce workload

Education secretary Nicky Morgan has urged school leaders to embrace new technologies to reduce the “paper trail” workload. Speaking…

John Dickens
John Dickens