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‘We will not be gagged’ – heads switch to personal email accounts to campaign on school funding

Hundreds of headteachers have used their personal email addresses to warn election candidates about school funding pressures, vowing: “We...

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Investigation: Pupils ‘at risk’ as special school staff left to ‘fill gaps’ in medical care

Special school staff are being left “vulnerable” and fearful for their jobs because they have to pick up “increasingly...

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Schools urged to offer inclusive assemblies after trust concedes collective worship challenge

Campaigners say religious schools should now offer suitable secular alternatives for pupils withdrawn from collective worship after a school...

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Chartered College tells ministers it won’t need further handouts

The Chartered College of Teaching has told ministers they will be self-sufficient from March and won’t need further funding,...

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End ‘shameful’ fire safety record with sprinklers for all schools, unions urge Williamson

The government has been told its “shameful” record on fire safety must end by unions who have demanded that...

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CEO: My trust ‘pays the price’ for being inclusive

An academy trust boss has said there is a “price to pay” in performance tables for having low exclusion...

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Revealed: DfE in £3m bailout of government-approved ICT supplier

The Department for Education paid £3 million to stop a cash-strapped ICT supplier to schools collapsing after it entered...

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4 key proposals from the Headteachers’ Roundtable election manifesto

The Headteachers’ Roundtable has today published its general election 2019 manifesto. The focus is on obtaining sufficient funding and...

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Ofsted flags Inspiration’s ‘flimsy’ response to ‘steep’ home education rise

Inspiration Trust has admitted the number of pupils moving to home education from one of its schools was “too...

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