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Child bereavement plans ‘urgently’ needed in schools

Schools should develop a bereavement plan “as a matter of urgency”, campaigners have urged, after research found that more...

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Poorer pupils in coastal areas end up 3 grades behind at GCSE

Disadvantaged pupils who live in coastal areas achieve about three grades lower at GCSE than those living in non-coastal...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Government gets tough on schools shortening weeks

The Department for Education (DfE) has been accused of having a “lack of understanding” of the financial pressures schools...

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Investigation launched after pupils given question ‘copied’ from textbook

An investigation has been launched after it emerged a question used in the Edexcel GCSE maths paper 3 this...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Ofsted downgrades hundreds more ‘outstanding’ schools

Almost a third of previously ‘outstanding’ schools inspected since last September have dropped to ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’, Ofsted...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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11-plus provider CEM bought by Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press

The University of Durham’s Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), a leading provider of the 11-plus test, has been...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Boys and girls offered different taster lessons based on gender

Two schools have come under fire for offering different taster lessons to pupils based on their gender, after girls...

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Kathryn Snowdon
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Cuts jeopardise leading alternative provision

The only “outstanding” pupil referral unit in North Yorkshire could close by Christmas, leading to fears students won’t have...

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Women underrepresented on DfE’s new ed tech panel

Women make up just a quarter of a new government panel set up to improve the accessibility and inclusion...

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