News

EXCLUSIVE: DfE £65k teacher salary advert ruled ‘not misleading’ by advert authority

The Department for Education (DfE) has been cleared of allegations that its £3 million recruitment advert was misleading for...

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News

Harperbury Free School cancelled despite £1.9m spend

A proposed free school has been cancelled three years after it was given the go-ahead because the planned site...

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News

Da Vinci studio schools to close

Two studio schools will pass on responsibility for post-16 provision to North Hertfordshire College (NHC) when they close next...

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Features

Fiona Ritson, English teacher, King Edward VII Academy

English teacher Fiona Ritson is the sort of person you can rely on in an emergency. The batteries on...

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News

EXCLUSIVE: DfE directors not following own rules on governor’s interests

Schools with Department for Education (DfE) directors on their governing bodies are not following the government’s requirement to publish...

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News

U-turn on South Bucks free school

In an unusual volte-face the government is once again overruling a planning inspectorate’s decision regarding a free school near...

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News

Schools warned on emergency bomb threat plans

Schools have been urged to update their emergency procedures after a spate of bomb scares, with new reports claiming...

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News

Regional schools commissioner budgets ‘going through the roof’

Fears that regional schools commissioners’ (RSCs) budgets could spiral out of control have been raised after the government revealed...

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Politics

£1,000 to combat cancer raised by Bristol girl

A caring 12-year-old pupil from Bristol has raised more than £1,000 for Cancer UK. Lola Humphries, who attends John...

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