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What Oak Academy has done well, and how it can do better

The Oak National Academy has gone from nothing to national institution in just a few months. Here, its principal...

Freddie Whittaker
MATT HOOD
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Government to hand councils £40m to help with home-to-school transport

Councils will receive £40 million in funding from the government to help get children to school in September amid...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads call for exam appeal fees to be waived as schools brace for deluge of challenges

Fees should not be charged for appeals against exam results this year to ensure there is a “level playing...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Four things we learned from the EPI’s analysis of 2021-22 school funding allocations

Efforts to “level-up” school funding in England will benefit better-off pupils more than their poorer peers, according to new...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupils required to self-isolate will not be marked ‘absent’, DfE confirms

Pupils who do not attend school because they have to self-isolate or quarantine will not be recorded as absent,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Exams 2020: Ofqual confirms final appeals process for GCSEs and A-levels

Schools will be able to appeal against GCSE and A-level results if they feel data used to standardise grades...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Sixth forms cry foul over ‘unwelcome’ rule change restricting use of 16-19 tuition fund

A rule change which restricts the use of the 16 to 19 tuition fund for sixth forms and colleges...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Pupils in local lockdown areas ‘will be returning to school in September’, insists Gibb

Pupils in areas currently under local lockdowns will return to school in September, the schools minister has insisted. Nick...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools should be ‘first to open, last to close’ in future lockdowns, says children’s commissioner

Schools should be “first to open, last to close” in any future coronavirus lockdowns, the children’s commissioner for England...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker