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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
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Schools will not be forced to promote National Citizen Service – but it will still get £424m a year

An extra-curricular project that schools were told they had to promote in assemblies is in financial disarray yet will...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Michael Gove: UTCs have failed

Michael Gove, the former education secretary and a key architect of the government’s fast-unravelling university technical colleges (UTCs) programme...

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Freddie Whittaker
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School support staff ‘increasingly’ teaching lessons, union warns

Schools are increasingly deploying support staff to teach lessons, a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Performance-related pay criticised by thousands of teachers

Thousands of teachers have criticised the government’s performance-related pay system, with many claiming it has denied them access to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker