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Jobs for the boys at UTCs

As few as one in 20 students at some university technical colleges (UTC) are female, analysis by Schools Week…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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EXCLUSIVE: Hawthorne’s Free School Taken Over

A free school judged to be ‘inadequate’ earlier this year is in the process of transferring to a new…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Schools reject GCSE failures claim colleges

Teenagers are being prevented from continuing into their schools’ sixth forms after failing to get C grades and above…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Academies minister speaks of ‘shocking’ level of governor oversight — IAA conference

School governing bodies are too large, and in some cases deliver a ‘shocking’ level of oversight, the education minister responsible…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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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,…

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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