January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM The government has written off £800,000 it was unable to claw back from free schools. Schools Week revealed last month that the DfE needed to claw back £11 million from more than 100 free schools after they failed to recruit the expected numbers of pupils in the past academic year. […]
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January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM The Catholic church is set to take the government to court early this year over its decision to reject a priest’s letter as a legitimate way of admitting faith pupils. The diocese of Westminster will challenge the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) in a judicial review planned to take
January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM There are two types of blind spot: one in your eyes, the other in the world around you. Education is suffering from both. Every eye has a punctum caecum, a small spot at the back of the eyeball that cannot absorb light and so causes a hole in your sight.
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January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM More than 1,200 schools in England have not had a full Ofsted inspection in seven years, with more than 100 given respite for longer than a decade, a new Schools Week analysis reveals. A policy introduced by the government in 2011 exempts schools graded outstanding from further routine inspection as
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January 5, 2017 at 08:20AM Ministers have slapped down the Local Government Association (LGA) over calls for small schools to be “exempt” from the apprenticeship levy, claiming most should not have to pay it. The LGA, which represents local authorities across England, says small council-maintained schools should be given the “same treatment” as small academies
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January 5, 2017 at 08:09AM Small schools whose budgets are already under severe pressure could be pushed beyond breaking point by the introduction of the new apprenticeship levy, school and local government leaders are warning. The levy, to be introduced in April, requires all businesses – including schools – with a wage bill over £3m
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