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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…

Nicky Phillips
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…

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