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Teachers trained via school-led routes more likely to go into classroom

School-based teacher training routes are getting teachers into classrooms at higher rates than university providers, a new analysis has...

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Police launch fraud inquiry at Baverstock Academy

Police are investigating an alleged fraud at a Birmingham school set to close later this year after falling into...

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Schools invited to express interest in new £140m improvement fund

Schools can now register an expression of interest in getting some of a new £140 million improvement funding pot...

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Government ‘propping up’ free schools with loans

The government has been accused of propping up under-subscribed free schools with “interest-free loans”, while academies and council schools...

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Government makes SATs an easier ride after ‘fiasco’ last year

The government has simplified questions in this year’s primary SATs after reports that last year’s tests left pupils in...

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Where will the next wave of free schools be? We still don’t know…

Free school applicants claim they have been “left in the dark” by the delay in announcing the latest successful...

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Ofsted launches official ‘good’ logo in policy U-turn

Ofsted has launched a new “good” logo for schools to display on their websites and in literature – just...

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Schools have 12 months to publish gender pay gap statistics

New rules requiring academy trusts and schools with more than 250 workers to publish their gender pay gap statistics...

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Baseline provider ‘surprised’ at DfE preference for formal reception test

Early Excellence, the popular baseline assessment provider whose observation-based model was favoured by 70 per cent of primary schools,...

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