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Campaigners angry after Eton-sponsored free school given £500k ‘windfall’

A council facing a £6.6 million funding shortfall to meet demand for extra school places has come under fire…

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Nicky Phillips
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Schools offered £1,900 for bringing ex-teachers back into the job

A government drive to recruit “returner teachers” solely to English Baccalaureate (EBacc) subjects will give schools up to £1,900…

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Nicky Phillips
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Nicky Morgan: Turban incident was a ‘serious error’

A Catholic school teacher who forced two Sikh children to remove their turbans made a “serious error” during a…

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Nicky Phillips
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Labour wants schools to be local

– But who will have power: local authorities, city mayors or some other regional level? – Tories say plans…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Devon school with TB infected pupils now “under control”

An investigation into a latent tuberculosis (TB) infection at a school in Devon is coming to an end, Public…

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Nicky Phillips
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EXCLUSIVE: More teachers left to go abroad, than did a university PGCE

More teachers left the country last year to teach in English international schools than qualified to become a teacher…

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Nicky Phillips


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Labour and Lib Dems threaten to join forces to defeat education bill

The government’s education bill which proposes the mandatory takeover of inadequate schools is likely to face major hurdles in…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Phonics checks ‘better prepare’ 120,000 pupils for reading but sponsored academies lag behind

The government has declared that 120,000 more children are “better prepared to become strong readers”, but data shows sponsored…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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£10m funding boost for mandarin classes

Thousands more pupils are set to learn Mandarin after George Osborne announced a £10 million funding boost to train…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Phonics check: the six key points from the data

This morning the Department for Education (DfE) put out the results of the latest phonics screening check. We have…

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Sophie Scott
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Extra members appointed to initial teacher training expert group

Four new members have been appointed to the group tasked with developing a “core” initial teacher training (ITT) framework….

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Swindon Academy opens ‘grammar stream’ for 30 pupils

An academy in the south west will test pupils in year 6 to enter a newly-opened “grammar stream” in…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips