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Progress scores plummet as trusts ditch ECDL

Progress scores in a trust founded by the academies minister plummeted after a fast-track qualification was removed from government...

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Government agency warns tutoring companies they are flouting the law

The bosses of dozens of tutoring companies have been threatened with imprisonment after the government launched a clampdown on...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE won’t say how many new breakfast clubs it has created

The government will not confirm how many new school breakfast clubs have been set up under a £26 million...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE ‘minded to terminate’ funding of four academies

Four schools in the east midlands have been warned they face losing their funding and being rebrokered to new...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds aide quits over Brexit deal

Anne-Marie Trevelyan, an aide to education secretary Damian Hinds and his fellow education ministers, has resigned over the government’s...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Pupils will get 6 seconds to complete times tables test questions

The Department for Education has set out the rules for its new times tables test for eight and nine-year-olds...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE re-opens asbestos survey after thousands of schools fail to respond

The government won’t publish the results of its much-anticipated school asbestos survey until next spring, a minister has revealed,...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Ministers ‘considering’ demand for changes to outstanding school inspection exemption

The government is “considering” calls from MPs for a review of the inspection exemption for outstanding schools, the schools...

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Freddie Whittaker
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No ban for leading head John Tomsett

A leading headteacher who had a sexual relationship with a former pupil will not be banned from teaching, the...

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Freddie Whittaker