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Labour childcare guarantee will rely on volunteers and parental payment, says Tristram Hunt

Facing a torrent of questions on last night’s BBC Newsnight, Labour’s Tristram Hunt said that the pledged ‘wraparound’ childcare…

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Labour manifesto ‘guarantees’ primary school childcare until 6pm

A Labour plan to bring back guaranteed childcare from 8am to 6pm in all primary schools has made it…

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Kings Science Academy trio appear in court charged with fraud offences

The former headteacher and two senior members of staff at one of the country’s first free schools have today…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Labour Education Pledges: the complete list

Labour announced its education manifesto today. Here’s the full list of pledges: – All secondary school and college pupils…

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Unions welcome Labour plans for one-to-one career advice, but warn of more Westminster control

Union leaders have welcomed Labour proposals for face-to-face careers advice for all secondary school pupils – but fired a…

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Labour pledges one-to-one career advice for every teenager at unveiling of party’s education manifesto

Every teenager will receive guaranteed one-to-one career advice to revitalise a system on “life support”, Labour has announced this…

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80 school leaders call on Labour not to ‘reverse’ academy freedoms – but benefit of autonomy may be overstated

Eighty school leaders from some of the country’s best-performing schools have today questioned Labour plans to ‘reverse’ academy freedoms…

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Sophie Scott
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Teacher banned indefinitely for changing pupils’ SATs papers

A teacher has been banned from teaching indefinitely after changing pupils’ key stage two exam papers. Ian Guffick also…

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Sophie Scott
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New “dating service” brings together research and classroom practice

A new brokerage service linking up research evidence to classroom practice in 12 schools will launch this month. The Evidence…

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Sophie Scott
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Tories propose compulsory year 7 re-sits for pupils without a “good pass” at KS2

Secondary schools will have to put every pupil who starts year seven without a “good pass” in key stage…

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Nick Linford
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Teacher Union Conference Round-up: What happened at ATL2015?

ATL held their conference on  Monday, March 30, to Wednesday, April 1 in Liverpool. Here’s what happened.   What…

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Teacher Union Conference Round-Up: What happened at NUT 2015?

NUT Conference took place between Friday, April 3, and Tuesday, April 7 in Harrogate. Here’s what happened.   What…

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Nick Linford