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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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IFS: Labour’s free meals plan will cost £950m and breakfast clubs might be more effective

Labour’s plan to provide free school meals for all primary pupils “would come at a significant cost” and might not...

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Anti-grammar schools campaign launches crowdfunding drive

A fundraising bid by a group of academics, authors and child psychologists will seek to challenge the government’s plans to...

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Three-quarters of primary leaders lack confidence in SATs, survey finds

Three in four school leaders lack confidence in SATs, while half report having received inadequate information to prepare pupils for this...

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