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Labour’s off-rolling crackdown could finally “shed light on a practice that is currently invisible” but must be supported by councils and trusts to work,...
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Leaders are calling on councils to keep working closely with schools to provide new nurseries, after it was announced that they would take the...
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Teacher workload, staffing shortages and competing priorities are stretching schools’ capacity to provide mentors for trainee teachers, a survey has found. In the latest...
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The number of exam grades that were challenged at appeal has dropped by more than 18 per cent in a year, despite the number...
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An academy trust broke rules after using a confidentiality clause while cutting ties with an employee. This is the first known case of a...
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Ministers have been urged to clarify how special schools will be funded under their white paper reforms. The document pledged a “fundamental reset” for...
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VAT on school fees, the end of charitable business rates relief, a big hike in national insurance contributions, falling pupil rolls. Whichever way you...
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For years, we have used “high standards” as shorthand for outcomes, culture and credibility. But too often we have allowed a quiet, corrosive loophole....
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The schools minister has issued a rallying cry for expert SEND professionals who quit their jobs to return and staff the £1.8 billion “experts...
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The long-trailed and much-leaked SEND white paper has been published. The government is billing it as a “radical expansion of rights”. Yet on first...
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Schools could face increased workload and become “the eye of the storm” on SEND disputes, lawyers have warned, as more accountability shifts onto headteachers’...
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Private schools wanting to convert to academies are “left in the dark” due to a lack of guidance on the process, a new report...
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Academy bosses are urging ministers to give them “clarity” over whether recently dumped trust growth funds will come back from the dead. Labour’s schools...
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The white paper’s “experts at hand” plan is positive, while hints of reform for school performance measures echo the EPI’s feelings about current shortcomings,...
