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Small ‘good’ schools may get exemption from longer inspections

The country’s smallest ‘good’-rated primary schools may avoid having new two-day inspections under Ofsted’s proposed inspection framework, one of...

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Ofsted director brands legal challenges ‘colossal waste of money’, tells schools to ‘bring it on’

Legal challenges by schools over Ofsted judgments are often a “colossal waste of taxpayers’ money”, a senior inspector has...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Government consults on plans to withdraw funding for BTECs

The government is considering withdrawing funding for BTECs and other qualifications that “overlap” with A-levels, Damian Hinds has announced....

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Microsoft researcher to head up new National Centre for Computing Education

A Microsoft researcher who also chairs the group behind the controversial master computing teachers programme has been put in...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted plans to entice middle leaders for inspection secondments

Ofsted is to launch a secondment programme for middle leaders who want to spend a year working as full-time...

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Improving schools won’t suffer under new inspection framework – Spielman

The chief inspector of schools has sought to reassure headteachers that improving schools will not be penalised under Ofsted’s...

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Performance tables penalise schools with most vulnerable pupils, warns union boss

The current system of school league tables stigmatises schools and penalises those with the most vulnerable pupils, union leader...

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‘We are rubbing pupils’ noses in disappointment’ – union boss

GCSEs “rub the noses of pupils in disappointment”, the leader of headteachers’ union ASCL will say today, as he...

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Trusts fail to make use of £500k DfE takeover funding

Trusts given hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government to take over struggling schools have failed to expand,...

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Freddie Whittaker