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School funding down 8% since 2009-10, new IFS analysis finds

School funding in England fell by eight per cent in real terms over the past eight years, according to...

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Damian Hinds asked me to apply, says new social mobility tsar

Dame Martina Milburn, the new chair-designate of the Social Mobility Commission, was personally approached by the education secretary and...

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Grammar school that forced out A-level pupils slammed in damning inquiry report

A south London grammar school which forced pupils out at the end of year 12 because of their AS-level...

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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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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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Freddie Whittaker