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Baseline test providers face a punishing deadline

Each of the six providers approved by the Standards and Testing Agency to deliver the new reception baseline tests…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Admissions must change, Durand told

Durand Academy in south London has been told it has to stop giving preferential primary school places to children…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Conference calls for education to go to the top of the class

Teachers and leaders joined union representatives at a day-long event in London at the weekend to discuss the future…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Association criticises ‘misleading’ research on boarding schools

French research claims that boarding schools are disruptive and do not guarantee better results for disadvantaged children have been…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Labour pledges to protect education – but won’t say who gets what (yet)

Labour this week promised to protect the overall education budget if elected this May. But any decision on whether…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Revisions published for final reformed GCSE and A levels following consultation

Revisions have today (Thursday, February 12) been published to the subject content for the final set of reformed GCSE…

Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop


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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