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Ofsted gives 700 sponsored academies a fresh start

The Ofsted ratings of more than 700 schools have been wiped clean after becoming an academy or rebrokering, a...

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Charity wants to bin exams at 16 for five-year ‘phase’

“Cliff-edge” GCSE exams at 16 should be scrapped in favour of a 14 to 19 “phase” where pupils complete...

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Extra £1.3 billion needed to plug hole in school budgets, EPI warns

The government needs to find an additional £1.3 billion to compensate for inflation pressures faced by schools and protect...

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UTCs want ‘best fit’ pupils

The organisation that oversees the ailing university technical college (UTC) programme has called on school leaders to “assess” which...

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New GCSEs force curriculum trade-off

An Essex school’s plans to restructure its timetable to meet the demands of the new “big fat” GCSEs has...

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School improvement ‘failing’ at Academy Trust of Melksham, says Ofsted

A multi-academy trust in the south west has been criticised by Ofsted for failing to sustain a “good quality...

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Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools

The country’s largest academy chain has been stripped of two schools – and is in talks about rebrokering more...

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DfE orders fire safety checks to identify schools ‘at risk’ after Grenfell blaze

The government has instructed councils and academy trusts to carry out fire safety checks on school buildings to identify...

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Trust’s shorter summer holiday policy causes rise in term-time absence

An academy trust has abandoned the experimental holiday calendar it introduced to alleviate cost pressures and reduce term-time absences,...

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