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Harris Federation schools to ditch three-year GCSEs

One of the country’s largest academy trusts has told its schools to ditch three-year GCSEs by next September, despite...

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‘Confidential’ Ofsted guidance for curriculum ‘deep dives’ leaked

Confidential documents used to train Ofsted inspectors for curriculum “deep-dives” have been leaked to at least one school, prompting...

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Three-year GCSEs? No ‘outstanding’ for you

Inspectors allegedly told school leaders that awarding an ‘outstanding’ rating was out of the question because they ran three-year...

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Warnings over impact of Gove reforms and off-rolling on attainment gap

The attainment gap between poor pupils and their peers widens when off-rolled youngsters are taken into account, a new...

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Blacklisted academy bosses were a one-off, says DfE

Academy bosses being secretly banned from running other schools has happened on just the one occasion, the government claims....

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School launches legal challenge saying ‘inadequate’ grade over gaming is ‘nonsensical’

A secondary school rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted for entering all its year 11 pupils into a vocational PE qualification...

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Anti-terror schools project to branch out to boys at risk of far-right extremism

A project to deter vulnerable teenage girls from radicalisation may be extended to reach working-class boys at risk of...

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Gorse trust criticised by Ofsted after leaders fail to explain movements to AP

An academy trust accused of planning to off-roll its underperforming pupils has been criticised over unexplained pupil moves and...

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Questions over declaration of academy trust’s £20k flat for CEO

An academy trust spent almost £20,000 renting a two-bedroom flat for its chief executive – and won’t say whether...

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Pippa Allen-Kinross