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Nicky Morgan: Schools must consult on admissions every 4 years

Education secretary Nicky Morgan has announced a package of school admissions reforms, including a reduction in the time between…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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How do you pronounce ‘cear’? Funny phonics leaves blogger baffled

Parents and professionals have been left baffled by a list of nonsensical words in a phonics book with no…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Government report reveals dire free school stats in south west England

Fears about the quality of free schools in some parts of England have been raised after government statistics showed…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Cross-party MPs recommend more teacher training on Holocaust lessons

A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government that too few history teachers are being trained to teach lessons…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Schools ‘manipulate’ predicted grades, leading head claims

The head of Watford Grammar School for Girls said she would let girls “choose” their predicted A-level grades if…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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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