Opinion

School Funding Changes: Made Simple

The way in which the Dedicated Schools Grant, one of the main components of school funding, is calculated is...

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News

Proposed GCSE RE criteria requires students to study two religions but not worldviews

Pupils will need to study two religions under new criteria for GCSE religious studies, but non-religious worldviews will not...

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News

GCSE secrets of top six local authorities

Schools in six local authorities have bucked the downward trend of this year’s GCSE results and boosted their results....

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Opinion

Schools Week editorials

Edition seven editorial Free school sixth-form offer £500 recruitment ‘incentive’ to pupils A proposed sixth-form free school advertising £500 incentives...

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Features

Tristram Hunt, shadow education secretary

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt is so tall he has to fold himself like an envelope when crawling into...

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News

FEATURED: the new regional schools commissioners

Academy status should not be seen as the preserve of large, urban schools, says Paul Smith, the regional schools...

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Opinion

University-led teacher training should be valued, not derided

The transfer of initial teacher training numbers to the School Direct programme has all the makings of a crisis...

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Politics

The Weald switches on the power to take chequered flag

Pupils from The Weald School in West Sussex sped to glory in an international car racing competition last week....

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Politics

Sir Ian meets Chew Valley pupils

Veteran actor and gay activist Sir Ian McKellen discussed gay rights with a group of pupils at a Bristol...

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