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Public accounts committee report on teacher supply: The 7 recommendations

The government is under pressure to reveal more about its efforts to boost teacher recruitment and retention following a...

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City Technology Colleges pioneer Sir Cyril Taylor dies aged 82

Sir Cyril Taylor, a pioneer of the City Technology Colleges programme who advised 10 education secretaries and founded the...

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Recruitment crisis: ‘Get a plan by April’ MPs tell government

The government’s “sluggish and incoherent” response to the teacher recruitment and retention crisis is putting schools under increasing pressure, the...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Tributes paid to NFER vice-president David Whitbread, who has died aged 81

David Whitbread, the vice-president of the National Foundation for Education Research, has died at the age of 81. NFER...

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Damian Hinds is ‘carefully considering’ lifting the faith-based admissions cap

The new education secretary is “carefully considering” whether or not to scrap a cap on faith-based admissions to free...

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‘I found it a privilege’ – Greening gives first interview since reshuffle

Justine Greening has spoken of the “privilege” of serving as education secretary, a job she has “always wanted to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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David Meller takes ‘leave of absence’ from his own academy trust

David Meller, the organiser of the disgraced Presidents Club charity dinner, is taking a “leave of absence” from the...

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Freddie Whittaker
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David Meller resigns from DfE board following Presidents Club allegations

David Meller, the co-chair of the controversial Presidents Club charity dinner that has been rocked by allegations of sexual...

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MPs demand DfE director David Meller’s resignation over Presidents Club allegations

David Meller, a non-executive director at the Department for Education, is under growing pressure to resign from his role...

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Freddie Whittaker