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Your guide to how SEN funding is calculated and allocated

The new funding structure for pupils with SEN in mainstream schools is now in place. How does it work? How,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Councils with ‘failing schools’ held by Labour

– Four of five councils labelled “ineffective” by Ofsted remain under Labour control – Anti-academy campaigners suggest system of…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Fund set up to improve learning for English as additional language pupils

A two million pound fund has been set up to find the best way of improving learning for pupils…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Convicted criminals want to work in schools, records show

Murderers, paedophiles and heroin dealers are among thousands of convicted criminals who have applied to work in classrooms across…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Updated Ofqual list: GCSEs and A-levels that will begin in 2017

Ofqual has today released an update for which qualifications will be reformed from September 2017. The qualifications regulator released an initial…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Ofsted chief and “superheads” on the top 100 list of most influential Catholics

Chief inspector of schools Sir Michael Wilshaw and “superheads”  Dame Rachel de Souza and Martin Tissot are included on…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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Number of children calling ChildLine about exam stress rises by 200 per cent

Calls about exam stress to telephone counselling service ChildLine rose by 200 per cent in the last academic year,…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Prince Charles challenged teachers as “facilitators”, letters reveal

A private letter sent by Prince Charles to then Labour education secretary Charles Clarke described how the heir to…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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New DfE minister u-turns over teachers being ‘forced’ to teach same-sex marriage

A Conservative MP who once expressed concerns that same-sex marriage legislation would force teachers to teach against their “religious…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Familiar faces head up the DfE as reshuffle leaves department relatively untouched

David Cameron’s ministerial reshuffle has left the top team at the Department for Education relatively untouched. Nicky Morgan, Nick…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Interim executive board finds £1m deficit in Lewisham school’s accounts

Leaders parachuted in to a school embroiled in a campaign to prevent it from becoming an academy have found…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Teacher banned after telling pupils “Muslims worship the devil” in history lesson

A supply teacher has been banned from the classroom after telling an AS level class that “Muslims worship the…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott