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DfE faces £263k bonus bill for staff who helped set up mass testing scheme

The Department for Education faces a bill of up to £263,000 after asking staff to work over Christmas to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads demand transparency over £1 billion school rebuilding programme

Leaders want transparency from ministers over how they select rebuilding projects after it emerged two schools getting a share...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Report 11-plus results and link them to pupil data, say campaigners and academics

Academies have backed calls from campaigners for 11-plus entry test data to be shared with government and linked to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘We don’t want these volunteers’ – heads reject catch-up proposal and demand more cash

Headteachers have rejected suggestions that volunteers could supervise extra lessons and summer schools, warning that more cash and opportunities...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Covid-19: Trainees can get qualified teacher status based on progress again this year

Trainee teachers unable to complete their courses because of Covid disruption will once again be able to achieve qualified...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Almost six in ten students improved GCSE grades in autumn exams

Almost 60 per cent of students who took autumn exams in GCSE subjects other than English and maths improved...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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1 in 8 LA-maintained schools now in deficit as primaries’ financial health worsens

One in eight local authority-maintained schools were in deficit in the last financial year, up from less than one...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: The 77 schools set to run new £65m ‘teaching school hubs’

Seventy-seven schools have been selected to run 81 new teaching school hubs across England, with £65 million in funding...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Gibb: ‘Challenge’ schools with low EBacc entries to address ‘unequal opportunities’

Schools with low EBacc entries must be “challenged” to address “unequal opportunities” in the system, Nick Gibb has said....

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker