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NAHT: Government’s policy on Grammar school expansion “misguided”

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By: Stuart O'Brien

15th May 2018

The National Association of Head teachers (NAHT) has responded to the Department for Education’s (DfE) announcement of £50 million to expand grammar schools across the country, calling the policy “misguided”.…

Unions claim nearly 18,000 schools will face budget cuts

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By: Stuart O'Brien

24th November 2017

The NEU teaching union, the NAHT headteachers’ union, Unison and GMB have updated their data, claiming that 500 more schools are now expected to miss out under the DfE’s funding…

DfE set to tackle failing independent schools

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By: Stuart O'Brien

10th November 2017

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that it’s looking to toughen its stance on independent schools who repeatedly fail to hit standards. Speaking at the Westminster Education Forum event,…

Fire chiefs: All UK schools should be fitted with sprinklers

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By: Stuart O'Brien

26th October 2017

Fire chiefs have agreed that schools throughout the UK should be fitted with fire sprinklers as mandatory. Scotland and wales currently fit sprinkler systems in schools. However England and Northern…

University fees haven’t put off students, figures reveal

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By: Stuart O'Brien

3rd October 2017

Data released by the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed that more people are studying a degree than ever before, with 49.3% likely to go to University before the age…

Learndirect funding pulled by government

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By: Stuart O'Brien

21st August 2017

Adult training company Learndirect has been told by the Department for Education (DfE) that that it will withdraw all funding from the organisation, after accusations of mismanagement and a ‘catastrophic’ decline…

Ethnically mixed schools create positive attitudes

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By: Stuart O'Brien

4th August 2017

New research by the Department for Education (DfE) has found that white-British and Asian-British pupils have more positive views regarding each other at ethnically mixed schools than pupils taught in…

Corbyn: “Children crammed into ‘super-sized’ classes like sardines”

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By: Stuart O'Brien

25th April 2017

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has highlighted Department for Education figures which showed more than 40,000 primary school children are taught in classes of 36 or more pupils, and has claimed…

New free schools planned despite funding crisis

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By: Stuart O'Brien

12th April 2017

The Department of Education has signed off the creation of 131 new Free Schools in England, while 20 local authorities have been given permission to open special needs schools using the same…

LEGO uses free content to get teachers embracing computers

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By: Stuart O'Brien

19th January 2017

LEGO Education is encouraging teachers to get hands-on with technology in the hope that it will revolutionise science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) lessons. Using WeDo 2.0, their latest resource…