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DfE figures shoot down claims of ‘incredible’ destinations for UTC pupils

New government data has undermined boasts by the architects of university technical colleges about the “excellent destinations” of their...

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Hinds considers law to hold schools to account for excluded pupils

The government is not ruling out legislation to make schools more accountable for the children they place in alternative...

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Progress 8 scores plummet at schools that used controversial ECDL qualification

Schools that entered large numbers of their pupils for the English computer driving licence have seen their progress scores...

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EBacc results 2018: Entries rise slightly

The proportion of pupils in England entering the EBacc has increased slightly this year. New provisional GCSE results data...

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Charity Commission hands back control of private Christian school after governance investigation

Control of the organisation which runs the Grangewood Independent Primary School in east London has been handed over to new...

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Ministers lobby for change in UTC admission age

The government is lobbying those in charge of controversial university technical colleges to move away from recruitment at 14,...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Doubts over DfE’s new pupil data sharing policy

The capacity of the Office for National Statistics to meet a deluge of applications for national pupil database information...

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Hinds: ‘I’m happy with system of multiple exam boards’

Damian Hinds has insisted he is “happy” with England’s system of using multiple exam boards for GCSEs and A-levels,...

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Unions back shadow minister’s food insecurity bill

School leaders have backed an attempt to force the government to collect data on food security, which will hand...

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Freddie Whittaker