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Coronavirus: Over 1 in 10 secondary schools set to defy government’s June 15 reopening plan

More than one in ten secondary schools look set to ignore government calls to begin reopening to year 10...

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GCSE entries: Stats, citizenship and Spanish up, PE, media and engineering down

GCSE entries increased this year as the number of 16-year-olds rose, Ofqual has reported. According to the exams regulator,...

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Secondary school applications fall for first time since 2013

Applications for secondary school places have fallen for the first time since 2013, new Department for Education statistics show....

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Schools need to know 2021 exam plans before summer, says Ofqual chief

Schools need to know what’s happening with next year’s exams “before the summer break ideally”, the head of the...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Williamson insists government is ‘working towards bringing all pupils back in September’

Education secretary Gavin Williamson had insisted exams will go ahead next year – adding the government is still “working...

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Coronavirus: Just 52% of primary schools reopened to more pupils last week, DfE data shows

Just over half of of primary schools reopened to more pupils last week, official government figures show. Attendance data...

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Ministers to drop ambition to see all primary pupils back before summer – reports

The government is to drop its ambition to see all pupils return to primary school before the summer, according...

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Extend free school meal vouchers over summer holiday, says senior Tory MP

The government’s national free school meal voucher scheme should be extended to cover the summer holidays, the chair of...

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Coronavirus: Trust was warned over local spike days before it was forced to close school

An academy trust forced to close one of its schools days after reopening because of a coronavirus case had...

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Freddie Whittaker