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Kent council’s controversial special school inclusion plans shelved

Proposals to redesignate special schools amid accusations some 'turned away most complex pupils' faced legal threats

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
NEU Conference

Strikes, maternity pay and SATs boycott: NEU conference preview

Eight interesting motions that will set the agenda at the education union's conference next week

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Funding

Schools’ repair bill ‘much higher’ than £13.8bn estimate

High-ranking Whitehall official warns cost to fix crumbling estate 'almost certain' to be more than thought

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Nursery

Revealed: The first 300 schools splitting £37m nursery cash

Ministers announced last June they would repurpose empty primary school classrooms to create 100,000 childcare places in 3,334 settings

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

The schools working hard for the ‘forgotten third’

Every year, about a third of GCSE pupils in England do not achieve a grade 4 in English and...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Schools

Union anger as spring statement snubs schools

Reeves mentioned crumbling school roofs, but they won't get more capital cash next year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Ofsted

ASCL floats ‘3+ point’ grading scale for Ofsted and calls for reform delay

Union warns Ofsted's five-point grading plan would leave 'school and college leaders in a worse position than they are...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Academy trust will press on with pension change despite government ‘threats’

England's biggest MAT to go ahead with controversial plan to offer less generous pensions in return for higher salaries

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Levelling up

Priority education areas no longer a priority

Priority education investment areas scheme due to end

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson