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Design of primary classrooms can boost pupil progress by 16 per cent

Learning progress in primary school pupils can be boosted by up to 16 per cent in a single year…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Laws announces ‘exceptional’ middle leaders secondment plan

“Exceptional” department, subject and year group heads from outstanding schools will be parachuted into challenging schools under plans to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Replace Ofsted with local inspection teams and ‘mutually agreed action plans’ – says new ATL report

Replacing Ofsted with a system of local inspection teams has been backed by the Association of Teachers (ATL) and…

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Nick Linford
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Northamptonshire ease teacher concerns over ‘Next Generation Council’

Council bosses have moved to ease fears about changes in education provision amid plans to outsource all of a…

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Nick Linford
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Labour will deny schools ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating if they fail on ‘creative and cultural’ curriculum

Schools will miss out on ‘outstanding’ Ofsted ratings if they fail to offer creative subjects and cultural opportunities under…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Labour pledges business leaders to help improve ‘slipping’ head teacher standards

Headteachers will benefit from business leader partnerships and a new ‘gold standard’ qualification – under new Labour plans to…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford


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Firbeck Academy and SPTA’s Don Valley Academy warned over falling results

The Department for Education today released ‘pre-warning termination notices’ given to two schools – and lifted a prior financial…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Local authority to outsource all services – including schools

Education services at a county council are set to be taken over by a ‘specialist social enterprise’ as part…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Diocese hands fraud-hit school to new academy sponsor

A crisis-hit academy that lost £1.2m after being targeted by a “sophisticated fraud” has found a new sponsor. Leadership…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Durand Education Trust to be investigated by the Charity Commission

Durand Education Trust (DET) is facing new scrutiny after the Charity Commission announced today it is to open a…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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David Cameron “strongly” backs grammar school expansions

The prime minister has given his strongest backing yet for the expansion of grammar schools. Speaking at an event…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Ofsted warns that 2,500 children are still getting inadequate education in Blackpool

Attempts to tackle underperformance in Blackpool schools have been criticised with more than 2,500 children now getting an inadequate…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott