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GCSE and A-level grade challenges soar as schools deal with ‘anxiety’ over accountability pressures

Schools submitted 121,000 more enquiries about GCSE and A-level grades this year than in 2014, a rise of 27 per cent….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Primary school league tables 2015: the ‘golden 28’ for key stage 2 SATs

Twenty-eight schools have overcome the odds and achieved the highest levels of progress and achievement for their disadvantaged pupils,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Primary league tables 2015: schools ‘rise to the challenge’ in key stage 2 tests

The Department for Education (DfE) has today released this year’s performance tables for primary schools, based on this summer’s…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Have tablet, will learn independently: An investigation into iPads in the classroom

Mobile, one-to-one technology – such as lightweight tablet computers and smartphones – have given new focus to the “independent…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Report reveals four in five school leaders face recruitment ‘problem’ as committee begins teacher supply inquiry

Almost four in five school leaders have reported a problem with recruitment, a survey by the National Association of…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government could challenge High Court ruling over religious GCSE row

The government could appeal against a High Court ruling that it made “false and misleading” claims about the new religious…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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‘Bedroom tax’ leaves pupils hungry and stressed, report finds

Children are being left hungry and stressed at school because of the government’s bedroom tax, a new study has…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Academies to be brought under ‘coasting schools’ legislation

Academies will be brought under new “coasting schools” legislation, the government has announced. Prime minister David Cameron has confirmed…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Religion should have the same importance as English and maths, new study claims

Teachers need to be as clued up on religion as they are on English and maths, a major new…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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First fleet of university teacher training schools …. don’t have any trainees (yet)

The first two university-run schools set up to train teachers alongside fully-qualified staff have opened this summer without any…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Male primary teachers are pushed into stereotypical leadership roles – can you guess which ones?

Talented male primary school teachers are being devalued because they get pigeon-holed into running sports classes or looking after…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Wey Education plans float on stock exchange after purchasing virtual high school

The education group behind one of the UK’s largest virtual fee-paying secondary schools and who advised on a failed…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips