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Reception baseline assessment: 8 key findings from the DfE’s pilot report

The Department for Education has published a report on its pilot of the new reception baseline assessment, which will...

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Freddie Whittaker
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All schools should block employees from working as Ofsted inspectors, say leading heads

A group of leading headteachers has written to every school in England urging them to block their employees from...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Let MAT CEOs become national leaders of education, says DfE advisory group

“Transformative” academy trust chief executives and improvement directors should be allowed to become national leaders of education (NLEs), a...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Variation requests soar as primaries downsize, and 6 other OSA annual report findings

The official in charge of regulating schools’ admissions arrangements has published her annual report. Shan Scott, the chief schools...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EEF research to investigate impact of three-year GCSEs

The Education Endowment Foundation has commissioned research into whether teaching GCSEs over three years boosts pupils’ grades. The charity...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ten things we learned from Ofsted’s school funding study

Ofsted has finally published its long-awaited research into the impact of funding pressures on schools. The study was not...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE dismisses ‘unrepresentative’ Ofsted school funding study

The Department for Education has dismissed the findings of a damning Ofsted report on school funding, claiming it is...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofqual consults on new ‘clearer’ malpractice and maladministration guidance

The exams regulator Ofqual wants to replace its current guidance on how exam boards should tackle malpractice and maladministration,...

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Freddie Whittaker
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School staff should look after ‘every penny like their own’, says academy trust CEO

School staff should treat “every penny” of funding as if it was their own and apply the same “discipline”...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker