Exams

Ofqual boss ‘signals anxiety’ to DfE about AI in A-level coursework

Sir Ian Bauckham was questioned by MPs this morning on artificial intelligence risks, his new 'rebuke' powers and on-screen...

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Samantha Booth
Profile

Baroness Barran, shadow education minister

A few days after she was appointed as academies minister in 2021, officials described to Baroness Diana Barran the severity...

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Samantha Booth
Schools

How falling school rolls are not just London’s crisis

Declining childbirth rates are hitting school demographics with many schools facing closure as the issue spreads across England

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Chaminda Jayanetti
Exams

New GCSE results app to be rolled out nationwide

It follows a pilot where just six per cent of invited schools and colleges took part, but ministers hope...

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Samantha Booth
SEND

SEND deficit support ‘not unlimited’ as funding review pledged

Support given to councils will be 'linked to assurance' they are moving towards an inclusive education system

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Samantha Booth and Lydia Chantler-Hicks
SEND

Identifying inclusion: Lessons for Labour from councils, charities and the sector

The government wants a more inclusive school system. But how do you measure inclusion? We spoke to those already...

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Samantha Booth
Free schools

‘Nightmare before Christmas’: 46 free school projects scrapped and 59 special schools in limbo

DfE to divert cash to councils to create places instead as leaders question decision to can 'ready to go'...

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Samantha Booth and with Lydia Chantler-Hicks, Jack Dyson, Ruth Lucas
SEND

Ministers’ SEND listening campaign ‘futile’, say parents

But schools minister seeks to reassure parents of a 'real dialogue'

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Samantha Booth
SEND

PINS: Half of schools did not get full neurodiversity support

Evaluators highlighted implementation challenges with the £22m programme's first year in 1,669 schools

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Samantha Booth