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£53m MAT growth fund open to trusts without proven record

£53 million will be made available to help multi-academy trusts (MATs) take on more schools, but the cash is...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Pregnant? Offender? What the government wants to know about AP pupils

Explanations for why pupils are moved into alternative provision are to be centrally collected for the first time under...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Confirmed: Teacher apprentices will be paid on unqualified scale

Trainee teachers on a new postgraduate teaching apprenticeship will be guaranteed an unqualified teacher’s salary, the government has announced....

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Freddie Whittaker
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More reception pupils have ‘good’ development, and 4 other findings from EYFS results data

The government has published results data from the national Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFS). The results are based...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Baverstock Academy fraud inquiry closed

The police have ended their investigation into alleged fraud at Birmingham’s Baverstock Academy. West Midlands Police said today that...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Schools must restart 20-hour computer science test amid security concerns

The exam board Edexcel has replaced the non-examined assessment (NEA) component of its computer science GCSE, leaving schools having...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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£53m MAT growth funding announced, but only for trusts with a good record

The government has announced that £53 million will be made available to help multi-academy trusts (MATs) take on more...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools minister went on £10k trip to ‘reinforce relationships’ with Australia and Singapore

The schools minister Nick Gibb went on a week-long trip to Australia and Singapore to “reinforce” Britain’s relationship with...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Savings still not found to give schools £1.3bn, DfE admits

The government still hasn’t found all the savings it needs to give schools the additional £1.3 billion funding it...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker