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MPs to investigate careers spending as quango gets more DfE funding

MPs will investigate whether careers funding is value for money after the government abandoned plans to make the Careers...

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Hundreds of schools offered government improvement support

More than 1,600 schools have been offered improvement support by the government after ministers changed how they intervene in...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted mulls creating school reviews website

Ofsted has refused to rule out creating a TripAdvisor-style reviews website for parents after more than three quarters of...

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Heads ‘not scared’ of industrial action over funding, says union leader

Headteachers are “not scared” of taking industrial action over school funding, says the head of the country’s largest school...

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Help me sort out special needs funding, Hinds tells heads

The government will seek the views of schools on whether special needs funding should be reformed to make it...

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Cost of school savings advisers will rise to £4m, and 8 other things we learned from Agnew at education committee

Academies minister Lord Agnew faced a grilling from MPs this morning over school funding, academies, exclusions and other issues...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Minister: We will ‘tighten accountability’ on exclusions

The government will seek to “tighten accountability” over school exclusions following a landmark review, a minister has confirmed. Lord...

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DfE urged to give long-term poor more pupil premium cash

The government should consider handing schools more pupil premium funding for those children with long-term disadvantage, the Social Mobility...

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‘Stay in school and become a scientist’ Hinds tells climate strikers

Pupils in England should stay in school and become climate scientists to help solve the problems of the future,...

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Freddie Whittaker