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Sixth forms ‘tighten entry criteria’ for A-levels after reforms

Schools are tightening the entry criteria for A-levels and discouraging some pupils from studying difficult subjects in response to...

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Doomed Schools Company Trust ‘double-counted’ GCSEs

A failed multi-academy trust that runs schools for vulnerable excluded pupils reported inflated GCSE results after double-counting some qualifications,...

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Legal challenge over exclusion of autistic pupil

The right of schools to exclude autistic pupils who exhibit bad or aggressive behaviour faces a legal challenge this...

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Ofsted chief criticised over lack of visits to early-years settings

The chief inspector of schools has not visited a sufficiently “diverse” range of nursery provision, according to critics, after...

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EPI: The DfE must ditch ‘flawed’ school performance statistic

Ministers must “ditch their favourite line” that there are now 1.9 million more children in ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ schools than...

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Don’t let parents opt kids out of sex education, warns leading campaigner Peter Tatchell

Parents who want their children to opt out from sex and relationships education (SRE) lessons should have to go...

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The DfE is ‘unrealistic’ about school cuts and 6 other morsels from the PAC’s annual report

The chair of the powerful public accounts committee has published her annual report, including criticisms of the Department for...

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Derby Manufacturing UTC placed in special measures

Another university technical college has been rated ‘inadequate’, the eighth to receive Ofsted’s lowest grade. Derby Manufacturing UTC has...

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Troubled UCAT academy trust to close, shedding seven schools

The University of Chester Academies Trust (UCAT) will close and give up all seven of its schools after leaders...

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