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Campaigners in Buckinghamshire are calling for the 11+ test to be abandoned after errors were found in an 11+ test paper taken...
Read MoreThe DfE media department has yet to respond to the National Audit Office report criticising provision for pupils with special educational needs...
Read MoreThe International Academy of Greenwich, a free school mired in planning difficulties* since it opened, has been judged to...
Read MoreThe Weald of Kent Grammar School (WKGS) opened an ‘annexe’ in Sevenoaks in 2017. It was suspected at the time that the annexe’s...
Read More The National Audit Office has criticised the support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in...
Read More Leigh Academies Trust (LAT) took over two primary schools in Tonbridge, Horsmonden and Paddock Wood, earlier this month but the...
Read MoreEight years ago, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port gave a character assessment of the then education secretary in a debate on the...
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Farewell then, Damian Hinds. Perhaps it’s too soon to assess your legacy, but given the survival rate of recent education secretaries, perhaps...
Read moreNearly six years ago, Boris Johnson gave the Margaret Thatcher lecture at the Centre for Policy Studies.
... Read more Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser who was once consigliere to Michael Gove at the Department for Education, is ‘...
Read more The Prime Minister’s claim that £14bn extra will be spent on education in England between now and 2022/23 has been doused with...
Read more‘Truly, satire is dead,’ tweeted Warwick Mansell on hearing Michael Gove was to launch a ‘rapid rebuttal unit’ to fight media ‘...
Read more Medway council granted a ‘commercial loan’ to the Delce Academy, Rochester, for a classroom block to house new infant provision...
Read moreWriting in The Times, the new education secretary Gavin Williamson says he wants ‘more free schools to shake things up and do...
Read more Difficulty in paying for basic essentials, never mind school-related costs such as uniform and transport*, can result in...
Read moreIt might be hoped that a new education secretary would heed warnings by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) about the...
Read more Sir Kenneth Baker, former education secretary from 1986-89, fired a broadside against GCSE reforms in England in a letter to the...
Read moreThe new education secretary Gavin Williamson is, he says, the first one ‘to personally take charge of further education and...
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