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Government considers council MAT for vulnerable Kent primaries

The government is in talks with a council over plans to create a ‘spin-off’ multi academy trust to run the region’s...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

What happened to the old technical schools?

The 1944 Education Act famously created three types of schools: academically selective grammars, selective technical schools, and secondary moderns...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to £35m new site

A struggling Bournemouth free school is still without a sponsor less than two months ahead of its move to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Make sex education compulsory to stop spread of STIs, say councils

Councils across England say compulsory sex education should be extended to academies in order to reduce the spread of...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools

The MP who chairs Parliament’s influential education committee says the government has “yet to prove the case” for new...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Just 54 citizenship teachers were trained this year

The number of new citizenship teachers in England has plummeted since 2010, prompting calls for a more “robust” approach...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

The national funding formula didn’t have to take money from schools

The DfE should bat for the funding the school system needs, not bow down as soon as the Treasury...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker

Making Good Progress: the future of Assessment for Learning, by Daisy Christodoulou

A phrase much heard among impressive heads of history that I have worked with is ”kicking rubbish data upstairs...

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Uber system will make supply teachers cheaper

New technology is changing the public sector workforce for the better, says Louis Coiffait. There may even come a...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker