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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...

Freddie Whittaker
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...

Freddie Whittaker
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...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE spent £115m on doomed free schools, UTCs and studio schools

The Department for Education spent more than £115 million on free school projects that went on to fail, new...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Relationships and sex education: What should schools do?

Draft statutory guidance on the new relationships and sex education curriculum has finally been published. The 38-page document sets...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Heads will decide if pupils can be withdrawn from sex education

It will be up to headteachers to decide whether their pupils can withdraw from sex education in their schools...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘I’m sorry’: Bright Tribe founder Michael Dwan apologises to Whitehaven

Michael Dwan, the founder of the controversial Bright Tribe Trust, has apologised for the problems faced by Cumbria’s troubled...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE received six applications for social mobility tsar job by original deadline

Just six people applied to become the government’s new social mobility tsar by the original deadline, prompting ministers to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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National Education Union staff to strike on July 19

Up to 200 members of staff at the National Education Union will go on strike this Thursday. The GMB...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker