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DfE’s teaching jobs board won’t reach all schools until April 2019

The national roll-out of a long-awaited state-run teacher jobs website won’t be complete until next April, the government has...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Areas with greatest SEND support demand will ‘lose out’ on high needs cash injection

Areas with large proportions of SEND pupils will lose out on extra high needs funding announced by the government...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Cuckoo Hall Academy threatened with funding termination

An academy criticised by Ofsted for its “stage, not age” curriculum model has been warned it could face being...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School data security incidents rise in wake of GDPR

The number of data security incidents reported by the education sector rocketed by more than 43 per cent after...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Fact check: How many free schools have actually closed?

Neither ministers nor the opposition are giving the full picture when it comes to free school closures,  analysis by...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE abandons Easter holiday hunger pilot after summer trial

The government will spend another £9 million testing solutions to holiday hunger across England, but has abandoned plans to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Prevent referrals from education rise 24%

Referrals by educational institutions to “prevent”, the government’s anti-extremism programme, rose by almost a quarter in the 2017-18 financial...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Reach 2 pledges ‘significant changes’ at Sprites academy after DfE threatens funding termination

One of the country’s largest academy trusts has vowed to turn around an ‘inadequate’ school threatened with having its...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Early phonics achievers three times more likely to ace KS2 reading test

Pupils who pass the phonics reading screening check on their first attempt are almost three times more likely to...

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Freddie Whittaker