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Pearson Teaching Awards honours the country’s top educators

The country’s most outstanding teachers were given the red carpet treatment as they celebrated winning a Pearson Teaching Award…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Life skills squeezed out of curriculum by academic subjects

The pressure on academic subjects is pushing life skills out of timetables – and organisations trying to support schools…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Academy chain offers extra £5k to ‘core’ subject teachers

Core subject teachers are being offered a £5,000 cash incentive in a bid to lure them to work for…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Teacher training providers must check UCAS website daily or face financial penalties

New teacher recruitment rules that will pit providers against each other in a race to fill places have been…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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All 154 teaching school alliances evaluated so far have passed the test

More than 150 teaching school alliances that have gone through a review of their success have passed the government…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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MPs to probe teacher supply ‘crisis’ during education committee investigation

An investigation into teacher supply has been launched by the House of Commons education committee. MPs will hold a one-off…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Judicial review of grammar school expansion “very likely”

It has been widely reported the government’s decision to allow a Kent grammar school to expand to a new…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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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Education Fellowship Trust says Ofsted criticism of its management is “out of date”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