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Move away and siblings will lose their place, say councils

Two London local authorities have amended the sibling priority rule from 2016, taking away the automatic entitlement to school…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Free school site has ‘credible’ explosives threat

A free school says it is expecting to move “in the coming autumn” to a permanent site by an…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Largest academy chain offloads eight schools

The largest academy chain in the country has transferred eight schools from its control, blaming their “geographic isolation”. The…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Teachers undecided on who will be best for education

More than half of school leaders are undecided about which political party is best equipped to improve the education…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Europe’s biggest arms firm BAE takes on failing academy

– Furness Academy in special measures since March 2012 – Campaigners uneasy about curriculum changes ’to suit needs’ The…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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School leaders in Trojan Horse region less likely to support promoting British values

School leaders in the region at the centre of the Trojan Horse scandal are less in favour of having to…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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Tories accuse Hunt of plot to sack 17,000 teachers

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has been accused by the Tories of plotting to sack up to 17,000 teachers…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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SNP likely to “steer clear” of interfering in education south of border should it form coalition

An academic has said the Scottish National Party is likely to steer clear of interfering with education south of…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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‘Coherent’ upper secondary plan needed before GCSEs can be scrapped, Husbands warns

A “coherent view of routes across upper-secondary” is needed before Labour’s plan to scrap GCSEs can be enacted, Labour…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Royal School for the Deaf Derby placed in special measures over safeguarding

The Royal School for the Deaf Derby has now been placed in special measures by Ofsted after it failed…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Purdah stops school visit

Maintained schools hosting visits from politicians in the run-up to elections could be breaking the law, but academies have a…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Conservatives will ‘guarantee the future’ of exams in minority languages, says education secretary

The future of GCSEs and A levels in minority languages such as Polish and Turkish would be guaranteed under…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott