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Key stage 2 SATs results 2018: 64% achieve ‘expected standard’

Sixty-four per cent of pupils achieved the government’s “expected standard” in reading, writing and maths in this year’s key...

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Hinds gives £5m to 20 ‘careers hubs’ to boost advice and job ‘encounters’

Schools in 20 areas of England will have access to funding to train staff to give better careers advice...

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MPs’ stern warning over ‘incoherent’ system and costly, ‘risky’ academisation

A powerful committee of MPs has warned that the government failed to properly scrutinise the early stages of the...

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Scaled scores for 2018 key stage 2 SATs announced

The Department for Education has today released the marks pupils needed for the 2018 key stage 2 tests to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Careers and Enterprise Company will publish secretive board minutes

Records of meetings held by the board of the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) will finally be published online...

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Ambition School Leadership and Institute for Teaching to merge into new charity

Two organisations offering development opportunities for teachers and leaders are to merge into a single charity. Ambition School Leadership,...

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Scrapping EAL proficiency data collection is ‘retrograde step’

Ministers are under pressure to reinstate a shortlived rule that forced schools to collect data on the language proficiency...

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‘Unfair’ disqualification by association rules leave hundreds in limbo

More than 1,700 teachers and childcare providers were left in limbo as a result of “disproportionate” rules that disqualified...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Health Futures UTC rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted

Leaders and governors at an ‘inadequate’ university technical college were unaware of “significant” weaknesses for years, Ofsted has said....

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Freddie Whittaker