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Four A-levels and a GCSE given the chop by Ofqual

Four A Levels and one GCSE subject are to be axed by Ofqual from next September. The qualifications body…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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Trojan Horse school to join Ark academy chain

One of Birmingham’s ‘Trojan Horse’ schools is set to join the Ark multi-academy trust next September. Trustees at Oldknow…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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6 Things We Learned In Today’s Education Question Time

At today’s Education Question Time the education ministerial line-up took questions on several topics, including the benefit of private…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Maths AS and A Level reforms delayed for a year

Changes to the AS and A levels in mathematics and further mathematics are to be put back for a…

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
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BREAKING: Three suspended as academies trust launches ‘misconduct’ investigation

A North London academies trust has suspended three senior managers and launched an investigation into “gross misconduct”. In a…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
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Four academy trusts hit with financial notices to improve

A slew of financial notices to improve for academy trusts have been published this afternoon by the Education Funding…

Philip Nye
Philip Nye


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DfE seeks refund on £30,000 iPhone pilot

The Department for Education (DfE) has spent more than £30,000 on iPhones this year as part of a discontinued…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Hunt private school partnership plan falls short of widening admissions

The shadow education secretary announced that a Labour government would make the sector’s business tax relief dependent on their…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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DfE volunteers begin Workload Challenge analysis

Teams of Department for Education (DfE) “volunteers” have started logging teacher responses to the Workload Challenge. The challenge, launched…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Edu select committee launches crowdsourcing for 2015 agenda

The education select committee has started to receive responses after kicking off a new way of crowdsourcing public views…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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AET turns to ‘plan B’ on outsourcing

The country’s largest academy chain is to press on with cost-saving measures after backing out of a plan to…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
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Want to know why teachers are banned? Dig deep . . .

It’s not easy to find out how many teachers were banned last year for sexual offences against children. It’s…

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips