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DfE changes ‘pervasive’ accounting after audit office criticism

Department for Education plans for getting its accounts in order after stinging criticism from the government’s audit watchdog have…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Primary leader creates tables to navigate complicated post-levels assessment

A primary school senior leader has put together a table highlighting the complicated system planned for assessing children whose…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Religious studies: Humanism vs Christianity, What should schools teach?

A High Court judgment in November has caused confusion over the new religious studies (RS) GCSE. Over the Christmas break,…

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Nicky Phillips
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Ministers refuse to back down on decision to scrap ICT as petition passes 10,000

A petition calling on education ministers to rethink scrapping GCSE and A-level ICT has fallen on deaf ears after…

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John Dickens
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Society magazine Tatler snubs northern schools (again)

Northern schools have once again been ignored in a society magazine’s list of “best state schools”. Since 2014, Tatler…

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Nicky Phillips
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Ofsted inspections of special schools drops by 85%

There has been a dramatic drop in the number of special schools inspected by Ofsted this academic year. Last…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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MPs band together to call for Nicky Morgan to make PSHE statutory – as government misses response deadline

The chairs of four parliamentary committees have urged the government to make personal, social and health education (PSHE) and…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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The Yo-Yo School: How John Cass went from ‘oustanding’ to inadequate’ and back again in one year

In November 2014, Sir John Cass’s Foundation and Redcoat School in east London was stripped of its outstanding rating…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Morgan’s online times tables check leads way for more screen-based assessments

Nicky Morgan’s announcement that children will take “high-stakes” online times-tables tests at the end of primary school could herald…

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Nicky Phillips
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Gaming is ‘good for children’s brains’, study suggests

Playing computer games in the classroom can improve pupil attainment, a study published today suggests. Brain imaging shows that…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Government ‘does not hold’ grammar school documents Nicky Morgan spent 11 months reviewing

The Department for Education has refused to confirm whether it holds a controversial application form presented by a Kent…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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‘How many schools did Ofsted rate last term? (And what did they get)’

On December 18, Schools Week showed the huge drop in inspections in the autumn term compared with 2014 (585…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips