News

Scheme will help schools recover energy over-payments

Company will carry out audits to look for 'anomalies and billing errors', then recover funds

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Samantha Booth
News

DfE trials ‘dating agency’ to help trainees find school placement

'Manage school placements' service, piloted in Leeds, allows schools to publish opportunities for placing students on teacher training courses

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Samantha Booth
Schools

New body launched to give council schools policy voice

New Maintained School Collective wants to provide a supportive network for council schools to collaborate

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Samantha Booth
SEND

Council bankruptcy fear ‘dominates’ SEND reform thinking – DfE aide

Government adviser also warns of a 'fear factor' around reform, and a risk parents will say 'you're taking our...

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Samantha Booth
Curriculum

Becky Francis reveals ‘emerging themes’ from curriculum review

Francis says ‘frequent complaints’ include that assessment and exams ‘dictate curriculum’, which is also ‘overprescribed and overstuffed’

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Samantha Booth
Schools

Hacked pupil records at Capita rise to more than 50k

A full investigation reveals more pupil records have been impacted than initially thought

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Samantha Booth
Budget 2024

Labour’s first budget: after the dust has settled, here’s what we know…

A week on from the budget, Schools Week looks at how it may impact schools and the Department for...

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Samantha Booth and Freddie Whittaker
Exams

AQA uses injunction to clamp down on exam paper cheats

England's largest exam board said it is taking 'proactive enforcement against those who try to undermine confidence in exams'

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Samantha Booth
Politics

Labour reviewing all of Eton’s proposed ‘elite’ state schools

Planned sixth forms in Dudley, Teeside and Oldham are part of a review of whether 44 free schools offer value...

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Samantha Booth