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ASCL 2017: Justine Greening heckled by heads over grammar plans

School leaders heckled the education secretary Justine Greening today over claims that grammar schools help close the attainment gap...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Greening promises QTS won’t be scrapped, and 7 key findings from her College of Teaching conference speech

Justine Greening has promised qualified teacher status will not be scrapped amid concerns the entry-bar into teaching is being...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Greening warned tinkering could cause funding formula to “come crashing down”

Justine Greening has been warned that tinkering with the proposed national funding formula to appease senior politicians pressing for...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Teacher pay: 1 per cent rise will cost schools £250m, warns government

An increase in teachers’ pay of just 1 per cent would cost schools an additional £250 million next year,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Justine Greening told by five select committees that demand for compulsory sex and relationships education is now ‘deafening’

Five parliamentary select committees have written to Justine Greening to say the demand for compulsory sex and relationships education...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
News

Thanks? No thanks: Why only 1 teacher received a thank you letter from the education secretary

The government has written one thank-you letter to a retired teacher in the past four years, despite launching a...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
News

Justine Greening holds up findings of the Teachers Working Longer Review

A group of educationists scrutinising the consequences of teachers working until their late 60s expect their interim findings to...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Opinion

So it’s goodbye to the Education for All bill… or is it?

New laws forcing more schools to become academies will not happen in this academic year. That’s about the only...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Michael Gove backs grammar plan – despite previous resistance to selective school expansion

Michael Gove has today backtracked on his historical resistance to new selective schools by saying the prime minister’s plans...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg