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Three in five teachers still required to triple mark, survey reveals

Around three in five teachers are still told by their schools to do frequent triple or “deep” marking, despite...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The 5 schools policies in Damian Hinds’s Conservative Party conference speech

  Schools will get access to funding to improve behaviour and careers advice, the education secretary will announce today....

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Freddie Whittaker
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Former Ofsted inspector warns inspections are ‘not very accurate’

Ofsted inspections are “not very accurate”, according to a former inspector, who has called for a “root and branch”...

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Freddie Whittaker
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‘It is illegal and we will take action’ – minister’s message to schools on off-rolling

The government will take action against any school or multi-academy trust found to be illegally off-rolling pupils, the children’s...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ignore the ‘fibbers’ over London’s school successes, says Hinds

Anyone who says they know why London’s schools have improved over the past two decades is a “fibber”, the...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Government to publish ‘school sport action plan’

Ministers will take action to get more pupils to play competitive sports in school, Damian Hinds has announced. The...

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Freddie Whittaker
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High salaries don’t attract the best, says trust CEO

Academy trusts give too much control to “ambitious” leaders and offer them huge six-figure salaries in the mistaken belief...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Labour related-party transaction ban won’t apply to charities

Labour’s proposed ban on related-party transactions will apply only to linked commercial companies, Schools Week has learned. The party...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Hinds defends extension of trainee teacher bursaries to more 2:2 graduates

The education secretary Damian Hinds has defended a move to relax the eligibility criteria for government teacher training bursaries,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker