News

Warnings over scarlet fever outbreaks in schools

Teachers are being reminded to be vigilant in the wake of a rise in outbreaks of scarlet fever. Schools...

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Nicky Phillips
Features

Glenys Stacey, chief regulator, Ofqual

It is five years since Glenys Stacey, lawyer-turned-serial-regulator, took the helm as England’s first ‘chief exams regulator’ and she...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

How my school helped Traveller children

There are simple, practical methods for integrating Traveller children into the education system, as my school has shown, yet...

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Nicky Phillips
News

300 schools sit national reference tests

More than 14,000 year 11 pupils will sit pilot tests for the national reference tests (NRTs) from Monday. Ofqual...

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Nicky Phillips
News

DfE fails to clawback cash from academy chains with zero schools

Only a handful of the academy trusts paid at least £850,000 to take over new schools paid back any...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

‘Setting targets does nothing good for pupils – it can even make things worse’

It’s time to ditch a culture of misused statistics and instead come up with a fairer system for measuring...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Huge sixth form classes will affect A level results, heads warn

A “significant funding dip” is forcing schools to increase sixth form class sizes, with one school reporting 38 pupils...

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Politics

Saskia O’Sullivan, Steve Warburton, Greg Williams and Amanda Spielman

Saskia O’Sullivan, head of science at Rendcomb College, an independent day and boarding school for children aged 3 to...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Teachers get chance to Shine with disadvantaged kids

Teachers across the country are being invited to submit their ideas for raising the achievement of disadvantaged children for...

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Nicky Phillips