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Ofsted’s ‘double visits’ will extend into secondary schools

Ofsted plans to extend dual visits to secondary schools from September as a test of its new short inspections….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Inspectors swoop into east London schools to check attendance data

Ofsted is visiting schools across Tower Hamlets in east London to scrutinise pupil attendance data as fears increase over…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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2,000 more MFL teachers needed for EBacc

Schools will have to find more than 2,000 “missing” teachers to meet the government’s demand for the inclusion of…

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Nicky Phillips
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The right to shun Christian worship already exists

Schools do not need to do a religious collective worship, a former chair of the national association for SACREs…

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Nicky Phillips
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Grade changes mean up to a fifth of pupils will fail their GCSEs

Grades that once achieved a pass at GCSE will no longer count for up to a fifth of pupils…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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EEF head receives one of four knighthoods

More than 70 people, including headteachers, heads of academy chains, education charity bosses and governors, were recognised for their…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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UTC ditches clocks in the classroom

The clocks have stopped at one university technical college in a bid to make pupils more “professional and business-like”….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Ofsted drops half of in-house inspectors

Less than half the current “additional inspectors” asked to join Ofsted’s new in-house inspection team made it through the…

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Nicky Phillips
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Carol Dweck says mindset is not ‘a tool to make children feel good’

The woman behind the theory of growth mindset says she is kept awake by some teachers misusing it to…

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Nicky Phillips
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Teaching assistants threaten strike action over summer school expectations

Teaching assistants at a special needs school will take industrial action over new contracts forcing them to work an…

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Nicky Phillips
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“Schools should glamourise oral sex”

Teachers have been told they should consider “glamourising” oral sex and mutual masturbation as ways of cutting teenage pregnancies…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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‘Move into the state sector, you’ll enjoy it more’, Wilshaw urges private school teachers

Private school teachers should “move into the state sector as quickly as they can” because they’ll “enjoy it a…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford