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Summer born pupils 90 per cent more likely to be on SEN register

Children born in August are 90 per cent more likely to be put on the special educational needs (SEN)…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Primary schools must do more to ensure importance of science education, says CBI

Shortages in the supply of science skills are appearing that may hold the UK economy back and primary schools…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Teaching resource asks pupils to ‘devise a plan for war’

A government-issued teaching resource which includes a task asking pupils to devise a plan for going to war, is…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Character education awards: the winners

The 21 winners of the 2015 character awards were unveiled last week as Schools Week went to press, with…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revoked ‘English identity’ charity claims to have taught in at least 10 schools

A group whose supporters were exposed giving Nazi salutes and chanting “white power” in an ITV documentary claim to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Applications for banned school worker waivers quadruples in a month

The number of applications for ‘disqualification by association’ (DBA) waivers has quadrupled in the last month and hundreds of…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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University sponsors quiet over promised academy support

Universities have withdrawn their sponsorship from at least four academies amid government concerns over the way they were being…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Care leavers: The Achievement gap isn’t closing, it’s widening

In a five-part series, Schools Week is exploring the way vulnerable groups of learners have been treated under the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Jail threat for teachers could ‘flood’ social work system

Stretched social services departments could be inundated with “a flood” of unnecessary casework if the government carries through with…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Engineering A level needs to be more creative

Proposals for a new engineering A level have been drawn up to entice more creative pupils and propel the…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Labour pledge support for ‘most able’ as Ofsted find fault

A “gifted and talented fund” to support the most able pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds will be launched by a…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Morgan orders reviews in schools with Syria links

The education secretary has ordered a review of schools whose pupils have fled to Syria – just days after…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden