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Disqualification by association rules for schools face axe

Controversial safeguarding rules which caused teachers to be unnecessarily suspended from work could be scrapped, the government has announced. The...

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Government shuns boarding school places for Syrian children

More than 80 free places offered to the government by boarding schools to house and educate unaccompanied Syrian refugees...

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Lancashire is fourth undersubscribed UTC to close

Another of the government’s flagship University Technical Colleges has announced plans to close this summer after reporting a lack of...

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Scrap KS1 tests and create ‘working’ baseline, says union leader

A working baseline test should be introduced for reception pupils and statutory key stage 1 assessment should be “scrapped...

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Heads want parent RE opt-out overturned

The legal right of parents to pull their children out of religious education should be removed, headteachers have said....

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Russell Hobby: Heads should be ‘in the classroom, not the boardroom’

Plans to convert all schools into academies risk creating “boom times for lawyers, auditors and consultants” while teachers struggle,...

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Headteachers consider industrial action over academies plan

Headteachers will consider industrial action over a bid to turn all schools into academies after a union passed a motion opposing...

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Morgan to manipulate primary floor standards

The number of primary schools which fall below government floor standards this year will be in the hundreds rather...

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Nicky Morgan rejects ‘sexist’ question about Nick Gibb role

A sexism row has erupted between Nicky Morgan and a headteacher after she was quizzed on the balance of...

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