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Pupils hit the high note at BBC Ten Pieces Prom

Performing in front of thousands of music lovers in the grand setting of the Royal Albert Hall would be…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted issues strong rebuttal over claims it failed to spot Trojan Horse problems

Ofsted has “fiercely defended” its reputation today following claims by MPs that confidence in the education watchdog was undermined…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Men, Women, BME: How Schools Week stacks up on equal representation

Organising an all-male panel can get you pilloried in education. Just ask Jonathan Simons, director of research at Policy…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Pupils’ mental health top concern for school leaders, report finds

Pupils’ mental health is the most worrying issue for school leaders and should serve as a “wake-up call to…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Ofsted’s summer term: the verdicts

As another term and the school year draws to a close, Sophie Scott looks at what Ofsted has been…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Formula-based high needs SEN funding would work better, says report

The Department for Education (DfE) should consider ditching historic spending levels in favour of a formula-based approach for allocating SEN high needs…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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Fraudsters’ scams cost schools thousands

Schools have been scammed out of thousands of pounds after their phone systems were hacked and calls diverted to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Academy head apologises for Progress 8 ‘worry’

The headteacher of a Cambridgeshire school has apologised to parents after Schools Week revealed it was changing the year…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Assessment without levels report delayed until September

The publication of findings from an independent commission set up to help teachers plan for life after levels has been delayed…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Teaching school to lose status after Ofsted report places it in special measures

A teaching school is to lose its status after it was found to be inadequate by Ofsted inspectors. Cramlington…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Lydiate Learning Trust in Liverpool seeks to cut staff

An academy trust is consulting staff over redundancies just six months after taking over one of the eight schools…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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RSC ‘POACHED’ after less than a year

Schools minister Nick Gibb fears more regional schools commissioners could be poached for top education jobs after one was…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden