Features

Angie Browne, principal, Steiner Academy Bristol

Steiner schools have a somewhat controversial reputation. Based on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian occultist who died...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Ofsted receives over 1,800 disqualification waiver requests

Ofsted has not turned down a single application for suspended workers to return to schools after scores of staff...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

‘How the new SEND statement replacements work’

A new special educational needs (SEN) system has been in place for more than a year. But have the...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

‘Can I fail Ofsted if a child I teach goes to fight in Syria?’

Despite Ofsted’s changes to the framework, we are already doing what we can – and how is this new...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Replacement SEN statements cause ‘postcode lottery’ in school funding

Schools are facing a “postcode lottery” in funding due to variations in the implementation of new special needs reforms,...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Private school head pledges not to speak with media on results day

The head of Wellington College has said he will not speak to the press on GCSE results day, claiming...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Holocaust survivor’s account streamed to schools

The testimony of Holocaust survivor Rudi Oppenheimer was streamed live into hundreds of schools across the country last week....

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

One rabbit won: pupil’s drawing takes prize

Stanley Robb’s depiction of a rabbit in a forest has won a national arts competition to design the front...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

United Learning pupils take part in musical

Pupils from United Learning schools across the country took to the boards for a performance of Zimbe! at London’s...

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Nicky Phillips