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Headteachers warn universities about leap in unconditional offers

The number of unconditional offers made by universities has jumped by 32 per cent in just one year, and...

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First school mental health support teams will be set to work ‘by the end of 2019’

New mental health support teams will start working with schools “by the end of 2019”, the government has confirmed....

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Freddie Whittaker
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STRB report 2018: 3.5% pay rise for some classroom teachers confirmed

The Department for Education has announced that pay for some classroom teachers will rise by up to 3.5 per...

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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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Freddie Whittaker
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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...

Freddie Whittaker
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