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Sir Michael Wilshaw: Headteachers have a duty to train their own replacements

Sir Michael Wilshaw has told headteachers it is their duty to stave off a recruitment crisis by training their...

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BETT Day Two: Ofsted ‘can’t check’ filtering of radicalisation websites; unaffordable ICT; and ‘fairy godfather’ experts.

  Education secretary Nicky Morgan said last month all schools will be required to protect children from harm online...

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Bett 2016, Day One: Nicky Morgan tells teachers to use technology to reduce workload

Education secretary Nicky Morgan has urged school leaders to embrace new technologies to reduce the “paper trail” workload. Speaking...

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Schools failing to teach pupils about sexual consent

More than a third of youngsters said they learned nothing about sexual consent at school, a new survey has...

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E-ACT academy chain abolishes local governing bodies

The national body for governors has welcomed an academy chain’s decision to make public its plans to scrap local...

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Schools must teach ‘extrovert’ traits – or social mobility will suffer

Schools are being urged to teach skills linked to the ‘extraversion’ personality trait so that disadvantaged children are not...

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New commission to investigate inequality in schools

A new commission will be launched today to examine the cause and effects of inequality in schools. The Social...

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Legal challenge to Kent grammar ‘expansion’ dropped after information ‘held back’

Two separate groups opposing the government’s decision to allow a Kent grammar school to “expand” have announced today they...

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Ministers refuse to back down on decision to scrap ICT as petition passes 10,000

A petition calling on education ministers to rethink scrapping GCSE and A-level ICT has fallen on deaf ears after...

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