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Teach Firsters return to the classroom ten years on

Teachers who trained with education charity Teach First when it launched 15 years ago are returning to the profession,...

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Now Teach trainees get ready to celebrate QTS success

Three in four of the older career-changers who joined the Now Teach programmme, co-founded last September by Financial Times...

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Ofqual: Don’t enter grade four pupils for higher tier GCSE papers

Pupils aiming for a grade four at GCSE – a ‘standard’ pass or the equivalent of a C grade...

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UK triumphs in the IB – even in an alternative provision academy

UK pupils outdid the global average score in the International Baccalaureate this year, with one academy trust also successfully...

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Inspection gap for outstanding schools widens to 11 years, and other findings from Ofsted

The amount of time between inspections of outstanding schools with the longest gaps has risen to 11 years, Ofsted’s annual...

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Due diligence must be improved, and 4 other findings from MPs’ damning report on academies

A damning report released today by the public accounts committee has slammed the government’s academisation agenda, claiming that it...

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More academy trusts in the spotlight over executive pay

The government has issued another warning to academy trusts over executive pay, this time asking those that paid employees...

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‘Inadequate’ academy faces termination of funding over standards

An academy in Central Bedfordshire faces having its funding withdrawn and being rebrokered to a new sponsor after it...

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Use creative arts to ‘challenge perceptions of what boys do and are like’

Schools need to give boys the skills to “be the best dads they can be”, delegates heard at a...

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Alix Robertson