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Ofqual ‘extremely cautious’ about more primary testing changes

The government should be “extremely cautious” about further changes to primary assessment, Ofqual’s chief regulator has told MPs. Sally Collier...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Unfilled places and £30m land deals – NAO takes aim at free schools

The government has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money on its flagship free school project after an investigation found...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Oasis director Andy Yarrow appointed chief executive of CfBT Schools Trust

The CfBT multi-academy trust has appointed a senior director from Oasis Community Learning as its new chief executive, with...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

The top 3 priorities for ministers on primary assessment

As the education select committee prepares to grill the schools minister Nick Gibb about primary assessment tomorrow, Nick Brook...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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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