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Grammar school consultation: Respondents wanted selective schools to take on 100% low-income pupils

Respondents to a high-profile government consultation on grammar schools mostly wanted them take all their pupils from poorer households, it...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Catholics slam ‘broken promise’ as faith admissions cap retained

Plans to lift the 50-per-cent admissions cap on new faith schools have been abandoned, almost two years after they...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Private Christian school under governance investigation

A private Christian school in east London is under investigation over “serious concerns” about its governance. The Charity Commission...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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The government ‘is failing a generation’ with school mental health reforms

Planned reforms to children and young people’s mental health services “lack any ambition” and will put additional pressure on...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Features

Paul Whiteman, General secretary, NAHT

Almost a year to the day since he was unveiled as the NAHT’s preferred candidate to replace Russell Hobby...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Angela Rayner: Government ‘wouldn’t survive their own Ofsted inspection’

The government has ignored headteachers and failed to “pay attention” to the fallout from its own policies, Angela Rayner...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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School leaders are being forced out, warns Angela Rayner

School leaders are being forced out of the profession by rising workloads, falling pay and a lack of support,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘I trust you to get on with the job’, Damian Hinds tells heads

Headteachers know “better than the Department for Education” how to improve their schools, and should be trusted to “get...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Damian Hinds speech to NAHT conference: The full text

The education secretary was in a conciliatory mood as he addressed his first NAHT union conference today. Damian Hinds...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker