Policy

‘ We are increasing funding for SEND schools by £780 million …’

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, PMQs,...

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Real terms per-pupil funding in 2020-21 ‘would be 1.0% lower than in 2010-11’ if the teachers' pension employer contribution...

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REAch2, the largest primary-only academy trust, has received a minded to terminate letter re Sprites Primary Academy, Ipswich,...

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The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) plans to repay a £1m loan from the Education and Skills Funding Agency by selling ‘...

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State-funded schools ‘should be incentivised to develop essential life skills’, recommends the Sutton Trust.

Given the loathing felt by...

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When a local authority school is judged inadequate, a directive academy order (DAO) is issued. This means the school must close...

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Five letters warning academy trusts that their funding may be stopped following inadequate judgements were published yesterday. I reported on...

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What a coincidence. Education secretary Gavin Williamson namechecks the Confederation of Schools Trusts in a Commons debate on...

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Academy trusts must ‘control the narrative’ which has been dominated by opponents of academization, says the Confederation of...

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‘ …we are investing more now—record sums—in education. ’

Boris Johnson, 8 January 2020, House of...

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The Department of Education ‘does not anticipate’ receiving the independent investigative report into the former executive...

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Yesterday, the Tate group asked the new government to provide sufficient funding for an ‘arts-rich curriculum’.

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Key Stage 2 tests became more difficult in 2016 after a ‘curriculum revamp’, said The Times .

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‘MAT performance data should not be used to infer performance of the MAT system as a whole,’ the Department for Education says...

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The Department for Education is dragging its feet on publishing the long-delayed report into the defunct Lilac Sky Schools...

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Four years ago, the Department for Education exchanged contracts on the Bowring sports field, Greenwich. The site was intended...

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‘ We cannot let Michael Gove’s sterling work be wasted. The former Education Secretary was passionate in his desire to improve...

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It’s usually a three-year ritual. The day PISA results are published is the day the UK media is dominated by hand-wringing about...

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