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Schools reject GCSE failures claim colleges

GCSE English and maths now required | Schools not letting pupils continue at 16 | Policy change driving ‘poor…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ofsted plan for shorter and more frequent ‘risk-based’ inspections

Ofsted’s chief inspector has set out plans for “frequent but shorter” inspections for good schools and colleges from next…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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FEATURED: the new regional schools commissioners

Small multi-academy trusts (MATs) will be encouraged to work together to help tackle underperformance in the east of England,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Review panel set to consider status of teaching assistant role

New standards on the status of teaching assistants are to be drawn up by a review panel, the Department…

Philip Nye
Philip Nye
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State-private partnership lacks evidence

The government has announced it will fund a scheme aimed at joining up private schools with state primaries in…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Exclusive: Free school ‘forced me out’ for not being top university ready

An MP is to start a ‘vigorous’ inquiry into a selective sixth form’s admissions policy after a number of…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Sats results quashed at primary schools

Investigations have been carried out at two primary schools after concerns were raised about key stage 2 tests, with…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Ofsted website inspections on the rise

Ofsted has increased its monitoring of school websites, Schools Week can reveal. In the past three years, 109 inspection…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Unions angry at ‘behind the scenes’ negotiations by NASUWT

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said it was “disappointed” and seeking “urgent clarification” today after the NASUWT union…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Morgan shifts gear but is ‘not easily held back’

In a speech light on policy but with a change in rhetoric Nicky Morgan has pledged to reduce teacher…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Morgan ‘not looking at’ assisted places or new grammar schools

The education secretary Nicky Morgan has said she is ‘not looking at’ the return of assisted places or new…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Free meal census creates funding ‘fears’

Concern has been raised over the calculation of funding for universal infant free school meals (UIFSM), based on the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips