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School budgets raided of £22m to replace scrapped ESG funding

School budgets have been raided to the tune of tens of millions of pounds by cash-strapped councils scrambling to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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The Seldon List: OECD chief and schools minister top trad-dominated education influencers list

Andreas Schleicher, the OECD’s education chief, Nick Gibb, the schools minister, and Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, have...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Update us annually on school mental health plan progress, MPs tell ministers

MPs want annual updates from the government on its plan to introduce new mental health support teams to work...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Some free schools were always ‘bound to fail’, admits former minister

Some free schools were always “bound to fail”, one of the main architects of the programme has admitted. Lord...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE has ‘long way to go’ to deliver for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils, minister admits

The government has a “long way to go” to improve the educational outcomes of children from the Gypsy, Roma...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Schools need cash to replace crumbling tech infrastructure, MPs told

Schools in England forced to use eight-year-old computers need a one-off capital cash injection to “level the playing field”,...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Some pupils may not access new school mental health services for a decade

A government scheme to improve access to mental health services for pupils may not reach all schools for a...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ministers accused of ‘broken promise’ on school funding

The government has broken its promise to increase funding to every school in England, a union has claimed. Ministers...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Pupils should ditch gadgets and climb trees in 2019, Damian Hinds tells schools

A new downloadable “activity passport” aimed at encouraging school pupils to ditch their gadgets and pursue “new interests” has...

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Freddie Whittaker