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DfE hands £4m in bailouts to schools that closed

Academies handed “exceptional” bailouts totalling £4 million over the last two years have still closed soon after, with the...

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Ex-minister’s academy trust ignores governance guidelines

A former academies minister’s trust is failing to meet government guidelines over good governance – and has seemingly been...

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Poor pupils at grammar schools twice as likely to attend Oxbridge, study claims

The country’s most disadvantaged pupils are twice as likely to attend Oxbridge if they live in a region with...

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Four-fifths of LAs could wipe out school deficits by clawing back ‘excess’ surplus, EPI study finds

The Education Policy Institute has published a deeper dive into recently released spending data for local authority schools. The...

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Ministers will make it easier to ‘try out’ teaching as survey shows appetite for career change

The government has pledged to make it easier for prospective teachers to try the job, after a new survey...

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Inspiration Trust hikes top-slice from school budgets to cover curriculum team costs

A high-profile academy trust has nearly doubled the amount it top-slices from its secondary schools’ budgets to fund an...

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Damian Hinds challenges all schools to go single-use plastic free by 2022

Education secretary Damian Hinds has challenged all schools to eliminate using single-use plastics by 2022 – urging school leaders...

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Top trusts ‘resist’ standardising curriculum, and 6 more MAT research findings

High-performing multi-academy trusts and federations of schools are resisting rolling out prescriptive practices for curriculum and pedagogy, a study...

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Barring pupils with fewer than three Ds ‘access to student loans’ is ‘retrograde step’

Leaked proposals that would deny student loans to pupils who achieve fewer than three Ds in their A-levels have...

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John Dickens