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60 free schools ‘must be found’ for every area

Regional schools commissioners have been told to grant more than 60 new free schools each as the Department for…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Teen arrested after two 15-year-old boys stabbed

A teenager is in a critical condition in hospital after a stabbing at a school in London. The Metropolitan…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Advertising watchdog launches investigation into teacher recruitment advert after 95 complaints

A formal investigation into claims the government’s latest teacher recruitment advert is ‘misleading’ will be launched after it sparked…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Hire more admin staff to reduce our workload, demand teachers

A teaching union has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the impact of workload on education staff –…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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We need your cash, schools tell parents

Schools trying to cope with squeezed budgets are taking the “unprecedented step” of asking parents for regular cash contributions…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Baseline assessment provider Early Excellence admits data ‘anomalies’

The credibility of the baseline assessment chosen by more than 12,000 primary schools could test government plans to hold…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Academies braced for publication of warning notices across the country

Academies across England are bracing themselves for a series of damning warning notices after seven were made public this…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Majority of school leaders face cutting staff in the next year to balance books

More than half of school leaders face making staff redundant in the next 12 months under “severe” financial pressures,…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ofsted to let schools see evidence forms

Ofsted has told parliament that inspectors’ evidence forms will be released to people who request them under information laws….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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For-profit firm running free school still losing money

The sole for-profit company operating a free school in the UK has cut its operating loss by almost 80…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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100 schools sought to test later start times in sleep study

Academics are looking for about 100 schools to take part in a study on whether pupil start times affect…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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School reprimanded by admissions watchdog for giving priority to sons of “old boys”

A grammar school has been censured by the admissions watchdog after giving priority for places to the “sons of…

John Dickens
John Dickens