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Ukip keeps schtum on plans to deny school places to immigrant children

The UK Independence Party (Ukip) this week remained tight-lipped about a policy to deny free state education to immigrants’...

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EXCLUSIVE: Grey Coat school apologises for donation ‘confusion’

A top state school has apologised to parents after Schools Week exclusively revealed their admissions letter appeared to breach...

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Oremi Evans, headteacher, the Brookfield School

The only person at Brookfield who doesn’t seem to believe that the special school’s head is now a dame...

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Progress 8: New measure undervalues low ability pupils

Schools adding value around the bottom of the ability range during the transition from legacy GCSEs to the new...

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Pupil premium: is the £2.5bn cash injection raising standards?

Schools Week is exploring the way vulnerable groups of learners have fared under the coalition. In the third of...

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Eight months in and how have the RSCs fared?

Regional Schools Commissioners are part of the government’s middle tier of accountability for academies. Brought in last September, they...

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Former free school head charged with fraud

A free school’s former principal has vowed to clear his name after he was charged with multiple fraud offences....

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PSHE teacher slump in face of £700 course fee

The number of teachers training in personal, social, health and economics (PSHE) education has fallen 90 per cent, according...

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