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Ed Miliband pledges to protect ‘overall’ education budget, including 16 to 19 funding

A Labour government will ringfence the entire education budget including for early years and 16 to 19-year-olds, Ed Miliband…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Government pledges £1.6 billion to support creation of new school places

The government has today (Thursday, February 12) announced £1.6 billion of capital funding to support the creation of new…

Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop
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Miliband’s education speech to focus on class sizes, standards and qualified teachers

A tighter cap on class sizes, higher standards, qualified teachers and a raised status of vocational education will all…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ed Miliband to pledge class size clampdown in key education speech

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband will pledge to cut class sizes when he gives a key speech on education…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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University of Brighton chosen to lead Troops to Teachers scheme

The University of Brighton has today (Wednesday, February 11) been chosen by the government to lead the expansion of…

Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop
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Ofsted orders urgent action over decline of Reading schools

Ofsted has ordered Reading Borough Council to urgently address the declining performance of its schools. The education watchdog has…

Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop


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Morgan and Clegg unveil second wave of school building grants

The second wave of grants in the government’s priority school building programme has today been announced by Deputy Prime…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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MPs write to Nicky Morgan over sixth form colleges VAT exemption

More than 70 MPs have written to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan calling for sixth form colleges to be exempted…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ofsted slams school for failing to tackle homophobia and racism

A Cornish school has been criticised by Ofsted for not “responding assertively” to incidences of homophobia and racism. Callington…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Faith leaders support systematic study of humanism

A group of 28 faith leaders has written to schools minister Nick Gibb expressing support for proposals for “systematic…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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No evidence of fraud at ‘Trojan horse’ school rules EFA.

An investigation into an education trust and one of its schools, involved in the “Trojan horse” affair, has found…

Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop
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Unions criticise government’s “woefully inadequate” response to Workload Challenge

Unions have criticised the government’s plans to address teachers’ heavy workloads, claiming it has shown “contempt” for teachers and…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott