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EXCLUSIVE: DfE to release free school application forms

The Department for Education (DfE) has agreed to release application forms submitted for all successful free schools, after a…

Philip Nye
Philip Nye
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EXCLUSIVE: Agnew resigns from Future Academies trust after just two months

Theodore Agnew, a non-executive director at the Department for Education (DfE), has resigned from his directorship of an academy…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Ofsted report reveals fall in school behaviour ratings

Schools are scoring less highly on behaviour relative to other factors since Ofsted introduced tougher inspection guidance in January,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ofsted investigation clears schools over ‘tipping-off’ claims

Three schools at the centre of allegations of tipping-off over the date of Ofsted inspections have been cleared in…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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The new regional schools commissioners

The lessons of London’s educational success over the past decade can be exported to other parts of the country,…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Teachers report ‘inadequate’ algebra grasp among A-level maths students

Students embarking on maths A-level programmes often have an inadequate grasp of algebra, a survey of teachers has revealed….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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Force all schools to become academies by 2020, demands Policy Exchange

All schools in England should be forced to become academies in the next five years, the right-leaning thinktank Policy…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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First edition review with Laura McInerney and Sam Freedman

Sam Freedman, director of research, evaluation and impact at Teach First and former adviser to Michael Gove, joined deputy…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Childcare, qualified teachers, the forgotten 50% – Hunt’s policy pillars for 2015

Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt today outlined his three key campaign pillars as Labour heads into its general election…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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UTCs struggled to reach 30 per cent capacity last year

Recruitment across the 17 University Technical Colleges (UTCs) averaged around 30 per cent in 2013/14, it has been revealed. An investigation by…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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School performance project worth £24m ‘not the right time’ says DfE

Plans to display school performance data on one platform have been shelved by the Department for Education (DfE). The…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ark to pilot ‘Professional Pathways’

Schools Reform Minister Nick Gibb (pictured above) attended the launch of three new sixth forms which are to pilot…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips