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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…

Nicky Phillips
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…

Nicky Phillips
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…

Nicky Phillips
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
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Neil Carmichael appointed new chair of education select committee

Conservative MP for Stroud Neil Carmichael has told Schools Week of his excitement at being appointed as the new…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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Ambition for next five years is to ‘spread excellence’ in schools

Education secretary Nicky Morgan says her ambition for the next five years is “spreading the excellence in schools we’ve…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan calls for state education to be ‘constantly improved’

Former Daily Mirror editor and one-time Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan has said it’s “imperative that standards of…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Majority of school leaders would risk lower Ofsted ratings by not offering EBacc to all pupils

A survey of school leaders and teachers has shown they would not make the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) compulsory for…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Reading is first UTC to get coveted ‘outstanding’ grade

Reading’s University Technical College (UTC) has become the first in the country to be graded “outstanding” by Ofsted as…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Independent Academies Association goes into liquidation

The Independent Academies Association (IAA) has gone into liquidation citing changes in the academies’ landscape as one of the…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Regional School Commissioners handed power to choose sponsors for “failing” schools

Regional School Commissioners are to be given formal powers to find sponsors to take over “failing” maintained schools, it has been…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott