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Schools Week announces media partnership with The Sunday Times Festival of Education

The Sunday Times Festival of Education has confirmed Schools Week as a 2015 media partner. The annual festival will be…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Durham Free School is to close, confirms Nicky Morgan

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has this afternoon confirmed the Education Funding Agency (EFA) is to terminate its funding agreement with…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Carter Review: let independent body design teacher training

A review of teacher training in England has recommended that future training courses should be designed by an independent…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Morgan: A ‘new deal for teachers’

Education secretary, Nicky Morgan, has today outlined a three-part “new deal for teachers” in a message to colleagues. The…

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Nick Linford
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BREAKING: Forest Academy becomes latest E-Act school to get new sponsor

An academy in Gloucestershire is the latest school to be relinquished by struggling chain E-Act, with a nearby FE…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Ofsted slams Durham Free School as inadequate – 16 months after Gove praise

Durham Free School – which was praised by former education secretary Michael Gove – has been branded inadequate in…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott


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We’ll judge character, not evidence says DfE

Schools do not need to submit verifiable evidence in support of their claim on a prize fund drawn from…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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DfE publishes three waves of free school applications

The Department for Education (DfE) has published the first three waves of free school application forms, more than two years…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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New DT GCSE content to be delayed until 2017, Gibb announces

The introduction of a new design and technology GCSE will be delayed, school reform minister Nick Gibb has announced….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Unions react to Ofsted’s ‘double inspections’ plan

Teaching unions have criticised Ofsted for failing to act more quickly on the reliability of its judgements after it…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Free research journal access – the teacher campaign continues

It’s not just teachers who have limited access to education journal articles – but also civil servants at the…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Character Education Awards process lacks rigour

The Department for Education has now confirmed that information submitted by schools, as part of their application to receive…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips