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Labour manifesto: Teacher pay bargaining pledge dropped

Labour has removed draft proposals to re-introduce national pay bargaining for teachers and allow councils to open new schools...

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Labour manifesto: the full list of schools policies

The Labour Party’s official manifesto for the 2017 general election has officially been launched this morning at Bradford University....

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Greens pick troubled Isle of Wight academy for education policy launch

The Green Party today launched its education manifesto outside a school facing closure on the Isle of Wight in a...

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ANALYSIS: Tory areas worst hit by National Funding Formula

With less than four weeks until the general election, Schools Week exclusively reveals the constituencies that face having the...

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Leaked Labour draft manifesto reveals national pay bargaining for teachers

Labour is considering the re-introduction of national pay bargaining powers for teachers for the first time in 26 years, Schools Week has...

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Labour Party officially launches its ‘National Education Service’

The shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, has set out how the Labour Party will build an education service “fit...

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Liberal Democrats promise to ‘protect’ school funding

The Liberal Democrats will spend almost £7 billion protecting school and college funding, the pupil premium and will invest...

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Unions call for AET to halt £2.6m caretaker cuts

Unions representing staff at England’s largest multi-academy trust, the Academies Enterprise Trust, are warning that some schools in the...

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Labour pledges £25bn schools spending under new National Education Service

Labour has set out plans to pump £4.8 billion in additional revenue funding into schools, and spend £21 billion...

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Freddie Whittaker