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DfE seeks refund on £30,000 iPhone pilot

The Department for Education (DfE) has spent more than £30,000 on iPhones this year as part of a discontinued…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Hunt private school partnership plan falls short of widening admissions

The shadow education secretary announced that a Labour government would make the sector’s business tax relief dependent on their…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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DfE volunteers begin Workload Challenge analysis

Teams of Department for Education (DfE) “volunteers” have started logging teacher responses to the Workload Challenge. The challenge, launched…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Edu select committee launches crowdsourcing for 2015 agenda

The education select committee has started to receive responses after kicking off a new way of crowdsourcing public views…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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AET turns to ‘plan B’ on outsourcing

The country’s largest academy chain is to press on with cost-saving measures after backing out of a plan to…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Want to know why teachers are banned? Dig deep . . .

It’s not easy to find out how many teachers were banned last year for sexual offences against children. It’s…

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Nicky Phillips


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Institute of Education merges with UCL

The country’s only university solely for education research and teacher training is to merge with University College London (UCL)….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Missed teacher training targets ‘storing up trouble’

Concerns have been raised about efforts to train sufficient numbers of teachers after figures were released showing that the…

Philip Nye
Philip Nye
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Banned head takes DfE to High Court for right to appeal

A banned headteacher has taken the Department for Education to High Court in a bid to overturn a decision…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Inspections reveal Ofsted’s approach to British values in wake of ‘Trojan Horse’

Snap inspections in the past two months have shed light on Ofsted’s approach to inspecting “British values”. In a…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Survey finds cutting costs a ‘major priority’ for more than half of school leaders

Cutting costs is the major issue facing school leaders, new research released today shows. An annual survey of headteachers,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Ofsted publishes outcomes for 35 no-notice inspections following ‘Trojan Horse’ revelations

Twenty three schools have seen a fall in their inspection rating after being hit with a no-notice inspection from Ofsted…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford