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More schools partially closed, but attendance rises

The proportion of schools fully open to all pupils has fallen again, Department for Education analysis shows, but more...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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How schools became the battleground of Cummings’s culture war

Schools have been hurled into the centre of a “culture war” by the publication of unexpected guidance thought to...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Going through the motions: What NEU members will debate at their special virtual conference

Members of the National Education Union will gather this weekend’s for a special virtual conference. The event has been...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Nearly one in six secondaries not fully open, DfE data suggests

Around 1,500 schools have now been forced to partially close, with as many as one in six secondary schools...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE introduces intelligence gathering to monitor exclusions ‘in real time’

The government is switching to monitoring changes in the use of exclusions and other disciplinary measures “in real time”,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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RSCs will ignore trusts’ 2020 results data and ‘pseudo Progress 8’ scores

Regional schools commissioners will ignore academy trusts’ own data on their 2020 results and “pseudo Progress 8” scores provided...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Spielman: Not ‘realistic’ to expect schools to provide ‘full’ online teaching

It is not “sensible or realistic” to expect schools to provide a “full on-screen taught programme” for all absent...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Partial closures ‘will continue until we have a vaccine’, says national schools commissioner

Schools having to fully and partially close and then reopen will “become a way of life” until a coronavirus vaccine...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Letter used by PM as evidence of school ‘safety’ warned of need for ‘prompt availability of testing’

A statement by the UK’s chief medical officers referenced by Boris Johnson as evidence that schools are safe warned...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker