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Kate Green reveals Labour’s education recovery priorities

A Labour government elected tomorrow would focus on addressing educational inequalities and look at the “content of what’s happening...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Five-fold increase in secondary pupils isolating due to in-school Covid contact

The number of secondary pupils self-isolating because of a potential contact with a Covid case in school increased more...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE refuses to release reports on school buildings

The government has been accused of “knee-jerk secrecy” after refusing to release reports on the condition of school buildings...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Geoff Barton to serve second term as ASCL leader

Geoff Barton is to serve a second term as general secretary of the ASCL school leadership union, after being...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE finally deletes pupil nationality and country of birth data

The Department for Education has finally deleted its controversial migrant children database, years after it stopped collecting pupil nationality...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual chair: Exam grade evidence not a ‘topic for negotiation’ between teachers and students

Evidence used to issue exam grades this year will not be a “topic for negotiation” between teachers and students,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Labour calls on DfE to ‘guarantee’ free school meals support over Easter

Labour is calling on the government to provide free school meals vouchers or cash payments over the Easter holidays,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School rebuilding: DfE to announce 50 more projects this year

The Department for Education has said it will add 50 more projects to its school rebuilding programme this year....

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Attendance: 1 in 10 secondary pupils not in school in second week of reopening

More than one in ten secondary pupils were not in school yesterday, the day attendance for older pupils became...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker