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“Tough choices” around the country’s finances are behind a decision to scrap an academy conversion grant, Bridget Phillipson has said. The education secretary also...
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When the current government and education secretary took office, they carried with them a sense of hope – for stability, clarity and a bold...
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Former union boss Mary Bousted and ex-children’s commissioner Anne Longfield will be made peers. The pair will sit in the House of Lords and...
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The government’s new schools bill will dominate education policymaking for the next few years, before changes start to feed into classrooms across the country...
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Teachers should be given powers to sanction parents who fail to engage in efforts to halt the “rising epidemic of disruptive and dangerous behaviour”...
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Laura Trott has been appointed shadow education secretary in Kemi Badenoch’s front-bench team, it has been reported. The appointment was made today just hours...
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Thirty-six academy trust leaders have been elected to a policy advisory group convened by the Confederation of School Trusts (CST). Schools Week revealed last...
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Back in July, the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) announced plans to establish an elected policy advisory group, designed to broaden the involvement of...
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The Department for Education will end its grant scheme for schools choosing to become an academy at the end of this year and has...
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A body representing private schools is launching legal action against the government’s decision to levy VAT on their fees. Julie Robinson, chief executive of...
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Before Wednesday’s budget, schools had been making financial plans mostly in the dark for 2025-26 and beyond. That is because there were no departmental...
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The government expects most of the £1 billion extra high needs funding for next year announced at today’s budget to plug councils’ SEND deficits....
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The core schools budget will increase by £2.3 billion next year to “support” the government’s pledge to hire thousands more teachers. The chancellor Rachel...
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The government has withdrawn funding for “a number of projects” granted school maintenance cash through its condition improvement fund, after identifying “serious irregularities” in...
