Home education

Rate of pupils leaving for home education doubles

Poorer areas see some of the biggest rises, as more parents withdraw children because of unmet needs

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Freddie Whittaker
Behaviour

School mobile phone ‘ban’ guidance: What you need to know

DfE publishes non-statutory guidance it says will give 'hard-working teachers the tools to take action'

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Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Pupils share food with classmates amid cost of living crisis

Poll for the NEU finds 37% of children know someone who 'sometimes does not have enough food to eat...

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Freddie Whittaker
Teacher training

Teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates: What you need to know

Degree apprenticeship route into the profession will launch next year with a pilot for 150 maths trainees

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Freddie Whittaker
Schools

NPQs not up to scratch for increasingly ‘complex’ headship

Development programmes for heads and executive leaders lack the 'full extent of skills and knowledge' needed, report warns

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Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

Largest trust would shun ‘inflammatory’ new strike laws

Minimum service levels 'likely to be self-defeating in practice', warns United Learning

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Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

RAAC: 119 schools to be rebuilt, 110 will get removal grants

234 schools have now been identified as having confirmed RAAC

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Freddie Whittaker
RAAC

Ofsted rejects RAAC school inspection exemption call

But crumbly concrete disruption will be 'sufficient grounds to defer the inspection'

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Freddie Whittaker
Teacher strikes

NASUWT plans consultative ballot over pay and workload

Teachers' union says it will 'take forward its campaigning, up to and including industrial action, to secure a better...

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Freddie Whittaker