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Ofsted SEN area reviews should focus on exclusions

A headteacher has called for the high exclusion rates among pupils with special educational needs to be the one…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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More school sixth form closures as funding reality bites

Warnings over the viability of school sixth forms as post-16 funding cuts begin to bite are becoming a reality…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Education Fellowship Trust says Ofsted criticism of its management is “out of date”

Ofsted says that a multi-academy trust’s “poor financial management” is a “major distraction” to driving up standards in its…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Pupils forced to stay in teachers’ homes during exam season

Increases in requests for exam access arrangements have led to a rise in the instances of schools having to…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Labour are ‘scaremongering’ over teacher stats, claim Conservatives

Teaching is a “hugely popular profession”, the Conservatives said after new shadow education secretary Lucy Powell’s attack on teacher…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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The Teaching Assistants Standards report that Nicky Morgan doesn’t want you to see

Standards for teaching assistants drawn up seven months ago by frontline volunteers have been ignored by ministers who are…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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New grammar school decision: How secondary moderns are responding

While a lot of loud noise is being made today about the rejuvenation of grammar schools – the secondary…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Demand for ‘family purity’ removed from Jewish school’s admissions rules

A Jewish secondary school in north London has been ordered to change its admission requirements after complaints that parents…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Lucy Powell demands publication of government grammar school advice

Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has demanded the publication of advice received by Nicky Morgan ahead of her decision…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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GCSEs 2015: Local Authority Analysis – Who did well? (And who did badly?)

The Department for Education today released provisional results for this summer’s GCSE results. It is the first time the…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Nicky Morgan: New grammar school decision is not a U-turn on Conservative’s selective schools policy

Education secretary Nicky Morgan has defended claims her party has made a U-turn on its stance on selective schools…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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New grammar school set to be given go ahead by Nicky Morgan

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is set to approve the country’s first “new” grammar school in fifty years today –…

John Dickens
John Dickens