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National supply teacher agency database now available for schools

Schools can now access a national supply teacher agency database that reveals the mark-up each company charges, under a...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE rubber-stamps closure of troubled studio school

The troubled Isle of Wight Studio School will close next summer, the Department for Education has confirmed. Closure was...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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DfE spent more than £23m on failed studio schools

The government has spent more than £23 million on studio schools that have either closed or never opened but...

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Secretive private school warning notices published for the first time

The Department for Education has finally published the warning notices it issued to underperforming private schools, over two years...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Now Teach charity gets £350,000 DfE funding to expand into Hastings

Now Teach, the organisation founded by former Financial Times journalist Lucy Kellaway to encourage professionals to become teachers later...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Government faces legal action on pupil nationality data

A campaign group is raising money to take the Department for Education to the High Court over its decision...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Mental health green paper will tackle risks of social media

A government green paper on children and young people’s mental health, tackling internet safety and the impact of social...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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We won’t know if opportunity areas have worked until at least 2021

The government won’t be able to gauge the impact of a £72 million project to boost social mobility in...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker