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Proposed GCSE RE criteria requires students to study two religions but not worldviews

Pupils will need to study two religions under new criteria for GCSE religious studies, but non-religious worldviews will not…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Free school sixth-form offer £500 recruitment ‘incentive’ to pupils

High-achieving students in Doncaster are being offered £500 in a bid to lure them to a new free school…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Government launch ‘mortgage’ offer for academies

Academies will for the first time be able to borrow government cash, “like a mortgage”, in a bid to…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Regional school commissioners begin to flex their muscles

A local authority’s choice of school sponsor has been vetoed, in a first sign of the government’s new regional…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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College of Teaching to have three year ‘incubation’

It will take three years for a proposed College of Teaching to get up to full capacity after its…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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GCSE secrets of top six local authorities

Schools in six local authorities have bucked the downward trend of this year’s GCSE results and boosted their results….

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips


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No link left behind for edu watchdogs’ website move

Exam regulators Ofqual and school inspectors Ofsted, both independent bodies, are to move their information and services to GOV.UK,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Double-funded academy say there will be ‘no difficulties’ in repaying

A free school in south London that opened with 17 pupils has said it will have no problem paying…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Unions slam Osborne for classifying teacher pensions as ‘welfare’ spending

Teacher pension costs are being classed as ‘welfare’ in tax advice statements being sent out by the government, and…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Two funding bodies but no pay rise for Lauener

The government is to save a £142,000 chief executive salary by also giving the boss of the schools funding…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Ofsted appoints lawyer for second investigation into Norfolk ‘tip-off’ allegations

Ofsted has today announced it is to appoint a senior law professional to carry out an independent review into allegations…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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More areas with ‘struggling schools’ given access to leadership scheme

Struggling schools in 10 areas of England are to be given the chance to recruit “talented leaders” to help…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney