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Halfon: ‘Cut pupil premium for schools that don’t promote apprenticeships’

Schools that fail to send pupils into apprenticeships should lose some of their pupil premium funding, the chair of...

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Maths teacher bursaries rise £10,000, but they’ll get less upfront

The maximum bursary on offer to new maths teachers is to increase by £10,000, but the amount mathematicians will...

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Teachers will get last year’s student loan payments back under pilot

Teachers will get any student loan repayments they made in the previous year reimbursed under a pilot announced by...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Greening’s conference speech 2017: the 6 key announcements

The education secretary Justine Greening is addressing the Conservative Party conference. Here are the main announcements from her speech…...

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Teachers to get student loan forgiveness in government pilot

The government will pilot a scheme of student loan forgiveness for teachers in shortage subjects working in areas of...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Lawyers told ministers grammar school expansion likely to be illegal

Ministers were warned the decision to allow a Kent grammar school to build a new site more than eight...

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Freddie Whittaker
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STRB given ‘flexibility’ over 1% teacher pay cap

The body that advises the government on teacher pay will next year be given the “flexibility” to recommend an...

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Greening: Teaching will cease to be only for university graduates

Teaching will cease to exist as a university graduate-only profession under Conservative plans for a new degree-equivalent apprenticeship route...

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Agnew confirmed as new academies minister

Downing Street has confirmed that Sir Theodore Agnew, the founder of the Inspiration Trust, has been appointed as the...

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Freddie Whittaker