Tutoring

‘Disbelief’ as DfE pays out up to £4m to run tutors website

Firm will support the DfE to 'build and run the service' to help schools find tuition partners

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Samantha Booth
SEND

Council fails to ensure all schools ‘accommodate’ SEND pupils

Government intervention on the cards after damning inspection of Kent's SEND services

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Samantha Booth
Exams

A-level disadvantage gap widest since records began

New data also shows record number of schools needing extra arrangements for exam students

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Samantha Booth
Schools

DfE academy troubleshooter banned from teaching for ‘bullying’ staff

Teaching Regulation Agency panel finds Sarah Gillett 'engineered' redundancy 'in retaliation' for grievance

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Samantha Booth
Schools

New Michaela Stevenage school scrapped over lack of ‘basic need’

Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh says opening second school would be 'financially detrimental' to other settings in the area

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Samantha Booth
Ofsted

Ofsted to carry out review of schools’ careers guidance

Watchdog to recommend improvements in practice by next autumn

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Samantha Booth
Politics

‘Voluntary exit’ scheme launched as DfE seeks to lose 10% of staff

Staff without 'skills the department needs for the future' to be offered three weeks’s salary per year of service...

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Samantha Booth
Schools

Barran: Investment firms ‘lecturing’ government on Oak ‘sticks in throat’

Academies minister says quango will not 'distort' curriculum and is a 'strategic investment' amid Lords questioning

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Samantha Booth
Schools

20% rise in cost-cutter savings and 6 more ESFA accounts findings

Government agency also admits it paid £2.1m to the wrong organisation - but managed to get the funds back

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Samantha Booth