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EPI study highlights ‘lack of evidence’ on university outreach schemes

More evidence is needed to measure the impact of efforts by universities to widen participation, a new review has...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools failing in legal duty to implement ‘accessibility plans’

Schools are falling foul of a legal duty to improve provision for disabled pupils, new research has warned. Disabled...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Teachers don’t trust ed tech firms, survey finds

More than half of teachers and school leaders don’t trust claims made by education technology companies, a new poll...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted considers probing curriculum narrowing in beefed-up MAT evaluations

New beefed-up evaluations of multi-academy trusts could see inspectors examine whether the curriculum is being narrowed across groups of...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Chartered teacher status going global with UAE partnership

The Chartered College of Teaching’s flagship CTeach programme is to be delivered overseas after the professional body partnered with...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Ofsted illegal schools taskforce investigates more than 600 settings

Ofsted has now investigated more than 600 possible illegal schools, new figures show. In an update published this morning,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

SATs maladministration cases soar by a third

The number of cases of SATs maladministration investigated by the government increased by 32 per cent in 2018, new...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News, Politics

Williamson wants free school ‘revolution’ rolled-out across England

The education secretary has said he wants to see the free schools programme “spread much more widely” across England....

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘I’m powerless to change things’ – another head to retire early because of Ofsted

An award-winning headteacher is to resign early after vowing never to face another Ofsted inspection, claiming the watchdog’s new...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker