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“Skint councils allowed to break minimum funding law” So ran the headline headline in Schools Week on Friday 11 October, and when I read...
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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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Staff employed by schools on zero-hours contracts – such as exam invigilators and some supply teachers – may need to be given fixed-term contracts...
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The bar for trusts and councils issued with new notices to improve school estates will be “very high”, and only if they are failing...
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A senior leader of a school that featured in the Educating Greater Manchester TV series asked staff for an update on “removing some of...
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The Department for Education had to pay the courts more than £13 million last year so it could deliver SEND tribunals. The payment is...
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Trusts have been told to set “diversity targets” as efforts to close the gap in leadership among the country’s biggest academy trusts falter. The...
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Several factors are thought to be driving poor retention, including concerns over pay, workload and accountability. A new paper published today proposes another factor...
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The government plans to change the law to allow schools to open new nurseries more quickly and will waive a requirement that some settings...
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The first Ofsted reports for schools without headline grades have been published by the watchdog, offering a first glimpse at the new-look documents. Reports...
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A prominent physicist, a psychologist and the world’s first “LEGO professor of play” are among 12 experts appointed to the Department for Education’s new...
