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Nicky Morgan: Turban incident was a ‘serious error’

A Catholic school teacher who forced two Sikh children to remove their turbans made a “serious error” during a...

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Nicky Phillips
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Devon school with TB infected pupils now “under control”

An investigation into a latent tuberculosis (TB) infection at a school in Devon is coming to an end, Public...

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Nicky Phillips
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Labour and Lib Dems threaten to join forces to defeat education bill

The government’s education bill which proposes the mandatory takeover of inadequate schools is likely to face major hurdles in...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Is the teacher shortage real?

One question has plagued the Schools Week office for months: how can every school leader say they are battling...

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Nicky Phillips
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EXCLUSIVE: More teachers left to go abroad, than did a university PGCE

More teachers left the country last year to teach in English international schools than qualified to become a teacher...

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Nicky Phillips
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£10m funding boost for mandarin classes

Thousands more pupils are set to learn Mandarin after George Osborne announced a £10 million funding boost to train...

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Nicky Phillips
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Swindon Academy opens ‘grammar stream’ for 30 pupils

An academy in the south west will test pupils in year 6 to enter a newly-opened “grammar stream” in...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Advancing with the tsars

Since Nicky Morgan took the office of education secretary she has appointed several experts, lovingly named tsars by the...

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Nicky Phillips
Features

David Didau, consultant, blogger and tweeter

David Didau doesn’t think teachers should be quiet in the classroom. In fact he hates the idea that teachers shouldn’t...

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Nicky Phillips