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Williamson thanks teachers for hard work on A-level results days

New education secretary Gavin Williamson has said teachers should feel “proud of their achievements” as over 200,000 students prepare...

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John Dickens
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Labour pledges to ditch predicted grades from university admissions

Labour has pledged to scrap university offers based on predicted grades under a major admissions overhaul. Instead, if the...

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John Dickens
Opinion

Brexit could give schools space to get on with the job – we mustn’t waste this opportunity

Whoever is lucky enough to be education secretary under the new prime minister is going to have to perform...

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MARK LEHAIN and JONATHAN SIMONS
News

More trusts in deficit, plus 4 more academy sector accounts findings

The DfE has published its annual accounts for spending in the academies sector during the 2017-18 year. The previous...

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John Dickens
News

Investigation: Fair access? Hundreds of pupils shut out

Hundreds of pupils are failing to secure school places after being turned away by schools during in-year admissions –...

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John Dickens
News

The Herrington Q&A: ‘Let’s reframe how we talk about academies’

After more than a year of waiting, Schools Week was finally given an interview with Dominic Herrington. Here, the...

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John Dickens
Features

Profile: Rachel Wolf

Rachel Wolf was backpacking around Mexico in 2006 when a job as a researcher for then-shadow higher education minister...

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John Dickens
Opinion

Summer review: Research of the year 2018-19

To mark the end of the school year, this column highlights some of the most interesting studies published in...

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HARRY FLETCHER-WOOD

Books for teachers and school leaders – summer 2019

Are you wondering which books to read on your summer break? We asked six people in the education field...

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