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Ex-children’s minister gets £550-a-day safeguarding review job

The former children’s minister and MP Edward Timpson will chair a new panel set up to examine child safeguarding...

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Fifteen schools chosen as T-levels pioneers

Fifteen schools are among the first 52 providers chosen to deliver the government’s new technical qualifications. These new T-Levels...

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Alix Robertson
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New £9.8m fund to gather world’s ‘best’ teaching practices

A new £9.8 million fund will deliver a five-year project to gather the best teaching practices from around the...

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TAs miss out on training as funding plummets

Nearly half of teaching assistants claim to have received no training from their schools within the last year as...

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Alix Robertson
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Ofsted attempts parental charm offensive

Ofsted wants to make its inspection reports more accessible to parents because they are its “most important education stakeholders”,...

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Alix Robertson
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Troubled UCAT trust to shed four schools after finances warning

Four schools run by the troubled University of Chester Academies Trust (UCAT) will be rebrokered to new sponsors following...

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Alix Robertson
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PISA gender report ‘reinforces stereotypes’

A major international report blaming girls’ lack of self-confidence in maths as the main reason for their weaker results...

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Alix Robertson
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AS entries fall by 60 per cent

AS-level entries continued to plummet this year, continuing a trend triggered by reforms which mean AS-levels no longer count...

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Alix Robertson
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Art & Design GCSE entries stay strong in face of EBacc

Fewer pupils have been entered for non-EBacc subjects this year, except in art and design which has bucked the...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson