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£2.5m scheme to help schools open-up facilities to get more kids active

Hundreds of after-school clubs will be created and school facilities will be opened up at weekends and holidays as...

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Teach First offered places to 82% of assessed applicants

Teach First has recruited its largest cohort of trainee teachers by allowing way more applicants through assessment and taking...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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State schools find it much harder to access university partnerships

Schools serving deprived communities are more than two-and-a-half times more likely to encounter barriers in getting university access help...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Scrap EBacc and reform Progress 8 to tackle creative subjects slump, ministers told

Ministers should ditch the EBacc and reform the Progress 8 performance measure to arrest the slump in the number...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Spielman: ‘Red herring’ to blame plunge in D&T numbers solely on EBacc

Ofsted’s chief inspector has defended the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) as being the main driver of plunging pupil numbers for...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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‘The challenge is huge’: Oasis founder reveals vision for England’s first secure school

Rev Steve Chalke, founder and leader of the Oasis Charitable Trust, which has just been awarded the contract to...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Proportion of pupils with SEND continues to rise, and 4 more findings

Government statistics today have revealed the proportion of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities has risen for a...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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First 23 computing hubs in England announced

The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) has revealed the first 23 hubs chosen to improve computer science education...

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Ofsted: Curriculum intent isn’t new, and it won’t be the ‘next big thing’

Ofsted has said that its curriculum intent requirements are “nothing new”, nor the “next big thing”, as it attempts...

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Kathryn Snowdon