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Ofsted’s summer term: the verdicts

As another term and the school year draws to a close, Sophie Scott looks at what Ofsted has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Formula-based high needs SEN funding would work better, says report

The Department for Education (DfE) should consider ditching historic spending levels in favour of a formula-based approach for allocating SEN high needs…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Fraudsters’ scams cost schools thousands

Schools have been scammed out of thousands of pounds after their phone systems were hacked and calls diverted to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Academy head apologises for Progress 8 ‘worry’

The headteacher of a Cambridgeshire school has apologised to parents after Schools Week revealed it was changing the year…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Assessment without levels report delayed until September

The publication of findings from an independent commission set up to help teachers plan for life after levels has been delayed…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Teaching school to lose status after Ofsted report places it in special measures

A teaching school is to lose its status after it was found to be inadequate by Ofsted inspectors. Cramlington…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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Lydiate Learning Trust in Liverpool seeks to cut staff

An academy trust is consulting staff over redundancies just six months after taking over one of the eight schools…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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RSC ‘POACHED’ after less than a year

Schools minister Nick Gibb fears more regional schools commissioners could be poached for top education jobs after one was…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Schools must publish gender pay gap statistics

Academy trusts and schools will be required to publish the pay gap between men and women if they employ…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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125 schools ‘opt out’ of Christian Worship

More than 125 schools have applied over the past three years to be exempt from the legal requirement to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Academies have less autonomy, says trust chief

The head of England’s largest multi-academy trust has said that there is less autonomy for schools in academy trusts…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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EEF defends philosophy report

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has defended the research methodology used in its philosophy for children (P4C) report, which…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden