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Former UKIP education spokesperson Paul Nuttall becomes party leader

Paul Nuttall, a former history lecturer who served as the UK Independence Party’s spokesperson on education for two years...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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EEF trial finds breakfast clubs more effective than infant free school meals

Breakfast clubs are more cost-effective than the government’s flagship £1 billion universal infant free school meals policy in improving...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Virtual lessons no ‘panacea’, says trust’s technology director

Academy trusts that want to set up “virtual centres of excellence” should be “cautious” about expected results, warns a...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Don’t think before you speak, all-male panel told at WomenEd

Male education leaders have been encouraged to stop worrying about “saying the wrong thing” and to join a growing...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Shadow education team has the right experience, says Labour

Labour’s new education team is “rooted in the real world”, says shadow education secretary Angela Rayner in an apparent...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Grammar plan is winning formula’ for votes, says Conservative MP

One of the Conservative’s fiercest grammar advocates has said the policy is not only the morally “right thing” to...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Cadet club growth slow in schools one year after £50m grant

Just five state schools have opened cadet clubs since former chancellor George Osborne announced a £50 million grant last...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg

Emma Mattinson-Hardy’s top blogs 3 October 2016

Party conference season is upon us and each political party is setting out its stall in how they think...

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Opinion

The mystery of the disappearing education secretary

As another party conference season ebbs away, this is usually the part where I write a column about the...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney