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‘Covid jabs within walking distance’: schools offer up sites for vaccine centres

Schools are offering up their sites to be used as vaccination centres as they face being closed to the...

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Williamson promise to test teachers before returning is ‘logistically impossible’

School leaders have accused the education secretary of making “logistically impossible” promises when writing for a national newspaper after...

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Improvement support for struggling schools delayed by months, DfE report finds

Struggling schools saw promised improvement support under a new government scheme delayed by up to three months, leading some...

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DfE issues wrong guidance in leaflet to help explain mass testing, schools told

The government has published incorrect guidance in a leaflet aimed at helping schools explain to staff, pupils and parents...

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Government accused of ‘unacceptable attack’ on teachers’ pay

The government has been accused of making an “unacceptable attack” on teacher pay, after the education secretary instructed the...

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DfE extends free sanitary products scheme for an extra year

The government has extended its free sanitary products scheme for schools and colleges for an extra year. Schools and...

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Covid: School attendance falls again after brief boost

School attendance has declined again following two weeks of improvement – with nearly 50,000 more children off last week...

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Greenwich backs down over school closures after legal threat leaves ‘no choice’

A London council which asked its schools to switch to online learning for the final week of term has...

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Pupils 6 months behind and teachers ‘physically fatigued’ – Ofsted’s final ‘visits’ analysis

Ofsted has identified six months’ learning loss in some pupils, a “wide variability” in numbers returning to school and...

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