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Still no investigation into trust that spent £100k repairs cash on staff salaries

Ministers are still deciding whether to investigate a trust that spent £100,000 of cash for building repairs on staff...

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Did DfE mislead Parliament over no-deal Brexit preparations?

The Department for Education is facing accusations it “misled Parliament” after denying the existence of preparation plans for a...

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Schools should ‘consider implications’ of teachers offering paid tuition, says Sutton Trust

Schools have been warned to “consider the implications” of teachers offering or promoting paid tuition after a survey found...

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Ofsted warns of ‘excessive’ restraint after 300% rise in violence at ‘unsafe’ special school

“Excessive” use of restraint, growing violence and “serious” behaviour problems have been uncovered in a damning Ofsted report of...

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Teachers want professional help to tackle exclusions, says RSA

Teachers want help from professionals to tackle exclusions rather than undergoing more training, a new survey has found. A...

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17 new free schools opened with no sports facilities

Seventeen free schools that opened last year did not have any on-site sports facilities, the government has admitted. A...

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Boss of failed WCAT ‘spent £1,500 on dog pen for his offices’

The head of Wakefield City Academies Trust spent £1,500 on a dog pen for his offices as his trust...

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Investigation: The free schools left homeless for years

Almost half of the new free schools of the past three years opened in temporary accommodation, with most still...

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DfE hits Ctrl-Alt-Delete on computing SCITT plan

Plans for a national computing SCITT have crashed after the government failed to attract any “suitable bids” to run...

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Pippa Allen-Kinross