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Independent schools to boost promotion of partnerships after bid to force facilities-sharing fails

Independent schools will step-up promotion of partnerships with state-maintained schools after a bid by Labour to force them to...

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Children’s Commissioner: Exams could be delayed by Ramadan

Exams could be delayed to fit around the Ramadan period this year, children’s commissioner Anne Longfield has said. Ms...

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Summer exams will clash with Ramadan for next four years, exams chief warns

Summer exams in schools and colleges will be affected by the timing of Ramadan for the next four years,...

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Government scraps ‘prescriptive’ home school agreements in bid to cut ‘red tape’

Schools no longer have to draw up blueprints for pupil and parental engagement after the government scrapped a requirement...

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Open super-selective schools to extend elite education into state sector, says former Gove adviser

A system of super-selective schools in English cities could extend “elite academic education” to the state sector, a former...

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Hundreds of pupils at Blackpool school skip first day over gun massacre threat

A Blackpool school which was the target of social media gun massacre threats has sought to reassure parents after three...

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‘The Stories What Won It’ : Schools Week’s Top 4 Award-Worthy Stories in 2015

It was a cheery night when the Schools Week team took home a series of gongs from the CIPR...

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Nicky Morgan: Times tables tests for 11-year-olds will pilot in primary schools this summer

Computer-based multiplication tests for 11-year-olds will be trialled in schools later this year, Nicky Morgan has confirmed. The announcement...

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Ofqual chief and academy trust heads among knights and dames in new year honours

Ofqual’s chief regulator Glenys Stacey and academy trust bosses Steve Lancashire and Susan Jowett have topped the list of those...

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