Schools

Teaching hopefuls asked for details of ‘any website you’re named on’

Safeguarding guidance states schools 'should consider carrying out an online search' on shortlisted candidates

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Politics

More than 500 staff apply for DfE ‘voluntary exit’ scheme

Staff 'who don't have the skills' needed for the future offered pay-outs to leave by May

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Politics

DfE schools director general to retire

After 37 years in the civil service, McCully will retire in March to spend more time with his family

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Exams

Ofqual disbands standards committee

The standards advisory group, a committee of the Ofqual board, was set up more than a decade ago

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Social mobility

Social mobility tsar quits: ‘I’m doing more harm than good’

Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been in post just over a year, tells Schools Week her reputation for controversial opinions...

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Academies

Elite sixth forms and northern BRIT School among free school bids

Only one in four of the more than 60 applications will be approved

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Ofsted

Ofsted: School workforce crisis ‘compounding’ catch-up problems

Recruitment and retention of staff must be 'urgently addressed'

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SEND

SEND tribunal appeals top 10,000 for the first time

In the past academic year, 11,052 SEND appeals were registered – a 29 per cent rise from 8,579 the...

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Tutoring

Revealed: Tutoring scheme missed disadvantage target

Data suggests just 49% of tutoring reached disadvantaged pupils last year, well shy of the government's original 65% target

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