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Two organisations named to deliver government’s new ‘school leader’ qualifications

The government is to launch revamped leadership qualifications for school leaders in September using two organisations incorporating over 100...

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Two schools fail cladding fire safety tests

Two schools in London have been found to have combustible cladding during tests carried out by the government following...

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Private-state partnership project fails to collect necessary data

The government spent over £175,000 on partnership projects between state primaries and independent schools, but cannot measure how effective they...

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DfE doesn’t know how many free schools have sprinklers

The government has admitted it does not know how many free schools have been built without fire-preventing sprinklers. The...

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Academy to slash breaks and extend day to meet new GCSE demands

An academy’s plans to slash its lunchtime break and extend the school day is the latest example of a...

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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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