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Female teachers in their 30s leave classroom at highest rates

Schools have been urged to offer flexible working opportunities, such as “keep in touch days” and cash retainers after…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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PFI FIRMS: The low-key investment firm that owns 260 UK schools

One of the largest buyers of equity in schools is a firm called Innisfree, based in central London. It…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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RSCs and councils ask schools for ‘impossible’ primary assessment predictions

School leaders are furious that local authorities and regional school commissioners (RSCs) are asking for predicted grades for this…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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INVESTIGATION: Who will pick up the tab for PFI?

Schools Week can today reveal how the toxic legacy of costly PFI contracts threatens to derail the government’s promised…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Fair funding formula could be toxic for PFI schools

Pledges to create a new England-wide fair funding formula could be derailed unless ministers find a way to fund…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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REVEALED: The true scale of school PFI debts

Every state school in England would have to pay more than £1 million each to clear the debt owed…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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ASCL kicks off conference season with survey revealing ‘damaging’ funding cuts

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has launched its annual conference today with a survey revealing “the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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EXCLUSIVE: DfE £65k teacher salary advert ruled ‘not misleading’ by advert authority

The Department for Education (DfE) has been cleared of allegations that its £3 million recruitment advert was misleading for…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Harperbury Free School cancelled despite £1.9m spend

A proposed free school has been cancelled three years after it was given the go-ahead because the planned site…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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National funding formula speculation ‘irresponsible’ says DfE as director laments consultation delay

Speculation that the release of proposals for a national funding formula could be postponed until after May’s London mayoral…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Da Vinci studio schools to close

Two studio schools will pass on responsibility for post-16 provision to North Hertfordshire College (NHC) when they close next…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Lessons in puberty come too late for many youngsters, report finds

One in four girls are starting their periods without having been taught about puberty at school, a report released…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott