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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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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
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Fewer primary schools below floor standard, but more are coasting

The number of primary schools below the government’s “floor standard” for key stage 2 SATs results has dropped. This...

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Pupil nationality data: Controversial collection misses data for more than million pupils

Schools failed to collect pupil nationality and country of birth data for hundreds of thousands of pupils for the...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Sixth form funding rates to remain unchanged in 2019-20

Funding rates for sixth forms will remain unchanged next year, the Education and Skills Funding Agency has confirmed, dashing hopes...

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Revealed: The 50 academy trusts that cut chief executive pay

The government has named 50 academy trusts that have cut executive pay following pressure from officials. A list, sent...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Teacher supply and school funding on the agenda for new Social Mobility Commission team

The rejuvenated Social Mobility Commission will investigate school funding issues and the teacher recruitment and retention crisis, its new...

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Social Mobility Commission to relaunch with £2m research budget

Ministers have allocated £2 million in research funding to the rejuvenated Social Mobility Commission, a year after all of...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Medway school mulls single-gender primary extension

A girls’ secondary school in Kent wants to add single-gender primary provision on its site. If the move goes...

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Freddie Whittaker