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Former RSC joins Ormiston academy trust

The former regional schools commissioner Janet Renou has become a trustee at one of the country’s largest academy chains....

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Blacklisted academies boss is working with schools again

The head of two failed free schools who was secretly blacklisted by the government is working with schools again...

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Government commits £79m to extend music education hubs

The government will spend £79 million funding music education hubs for another year, despite concerns that access to the...

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DfE review to make MFL subjects ‘more accessible’

The government has launched a review into making modern foreign language GCSEs more accessible after Ofqual admitted it was...

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Ofqual to make it easier to get top grades in GCSE French and German

The exams regulator will make it easier for pupils to achieve top grades in GCSE French and German from...

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DfE’s plans for new computing SCITT crash after no bids received

The Department for Education failed to attract a single bid to run its proposed national computing SCITT, but has...

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New inspections ‘still disadvantage’ less affluent schools, analysis suggests

Schools with challenging intakes are still disadvantaged under Ofsted’s new framework, suggests an analysis of the first inspections. Although...

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Counting to 20 back in early years goals as DfE U-turns

The government has U-turned on plans to make pupils count to 10 – rather than beyond 20 – under...

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‘Absolutely devastated’: Free school stuck in temporary premises closed by DfE

A free school that has failed to get planning permission for a permanent site over the last three years...

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Pippa Allen-Kinross