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Council leaders defend taking parents to tribunal over SEND support

Council leaders have defended their decisions to take families to tribunal to settle disagreements about provision for pupils with...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Trust hopes PGCE ‘franchise’ will boost Russell Group grad recruitment

A trust is in talks to “franchise” a university’s PGCE programme, allowing it to dodge UCAS recruitment and target...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Pupils face £2 ‘fines’ to get their phones back

A school has been accused of holding pupils’ mobile phones to “ransom” after charging parents £2 to return confiscated...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Quality of music education should affect a school’s Ofsted rating, says report

Failing to provide a high-quality music education should have an “adverse impact” on a school’s Ofsted rating, an influential...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Landmark judicial review hands schools more power to challenge council SEND placements

An eight-year-old autistic boy with severe learning needs was denied specialist schooling for at least four months after a...

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Jess Staufenberg
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DfE could lose ‘millions’ under faith academies plan

The government could lose millions in contributions towards capital funding if religious groups convert their schools into academies en-masse....

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Jess Staufenberg
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Gibb calls for more attention on ‘oracy’ in knowledge-rich curriculum

The schools minister wants oracy to receive more attention from schools with knowledge-rich curricula, alongside the more traditional “three...

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Jess Staufenberg
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New headsets monitor pupils’ brain waves to track concentration

English universities are interested in researching controversial headsets that claim to monitor if pupils are concentrating in class, say...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Pupils won’t lose SATs marks for back-to-front commas, DfE tells primary heads

Primary school pupils will no longer lose marks if they write a comma back-to-front, the government has told headteachers...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg