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Schools won’t be forced to provide wraparound childcare themselves under Morgan’s plans

Schools won’t be forced to provide wraparound childcare themselves and can turn down “unreasonable” requests from parents under new…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Prime Minister’s speech: Cameron announces Madrassa and Sunday school inspection requirement

Madrassas, Sunday schools, Yeshivas and other religious institutions which teach children “intensively” will have to register and be inspected,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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The story behind Nicky Morgan’s “one in three pupils” statistic

Education secretary Nicky Morgan opened her speech at the Conservative party conference today with this statistic: NiMo: Imagine a…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Nicky Morgan: Parents get ‘right to request’ schools open for full working day

Schools will be “expected” to accommodate requests for childcare “for a full working day” and in the school holidays…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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David Cameron’s truancy plans will put a ‘wedge’ between schools and families

Docking child benefits to people who refuse to pay a penalty after their children play truant will only “drive…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Education committee chair Neil Carmichael brands lack of home education register a “scandal”

The Conservative chairman of the education select committee has today said he finds it “amazing” that parents who home…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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Inadequate free school facing forced takeover

An inadequate free school is facing a forced takeover by a new sponsor in a bid by the Department…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Conservative conference: Nicky Morgan union clash over ‘negative picture’ of teaching

Nicky Morgan has clashed with trade unionists at the Conservative Party conference as she accused them of painting a…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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England has ‘highest expulsion rate in Europe’

England’s expulsion rate is “out of control” because getting rid of struggling pupils is “in the interests of schools”,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Heads need support of local authorities to clamp down on school place fraud

Scores of local education authorities did not record data or had no investigation policy for tackling admission fraud, despite…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Phonics check uncovers failing disadvantaged pupils

Disadvantaged pupils in wealthy local authorities are not catching up to the reading abilities of their peers, show the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Gender imbalance in top jobs spawns conference

An inaugural conference looking at boosting the number of women in leadership positions in education will be held in…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips