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Heads feel ‘let down’ over teacher pay settlement

Unions representing hundreds of thousands of teachers and school leaders have revealed their concerns about the pay settlement for...

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Teacher pay 2018-19: What do schools need to know?

The government has confirmed teacher pay arrangements from September, but the big rise touted by ministers is not all...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE annual report and accounts 2017-18: 12 things we learned

Ministerial payoffs, senior staff bonuses and millions in written-off debts have been revealed in the Department for Education’s annual...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Sadiq Khan urged to intervene over London’s ‘special needs timebomb’

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is under pressure to take action over the capital’s “special needs timebomb”. The...

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Freddie Whittaker
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A third of schools start GCSEs in year nine, and 10 other things we learned from the DfE’s school snapshot survey 2017

An extensive survey of hundreds of school leaders and teachers has been published by the government, six months after...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE publishes delayed ‘workload reduction toolkit’

The Department for Education has finally published its “workload reduction toolkit”, the day after most schools broke up for...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Relationships, sex and health education consultation opens

Schools have finally been told what they will have to teach in new relationships and sex education lessons, months...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Capita admitted SIMS bug on day it was handed £109m primary testing contract

Outsourcing firm Capita has refused to say when it first became aware of a computer bug that risks corrupting...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Full national funding formula roll-out delayed until 2021

The government’s new national funding formula will not be rolled out fully until 2021 after ministers delayed its implementation...

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Freddie Whittaker