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Flexible hours demand scuppers Return to Teaching pilot

January 13, 2017 at 01:06PM One of the largest lead schools in the government’s “returner teachers” pilot says demands for flexible working scuppered the scheme – leaving it with just three of the 23 teachers it retrained. In last year’s Return to Teaching pilot schools were given £1,900 to retrain and employ qualified teachers no

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Greening warned tinkering could cause funding formula to “come crashing down”

January 13, 2017 at 01:06PM Justine Greening has been warned that tinkering with the proposed national funding formula to appease senior politicians pressing for a more radical plan could cause it all to “come crashing down”. A handful of Conservative MPs, largely from rural areas, have called for a review of the funding overhaul that

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Flooded schools need millions to relocate

January 13, 2017 at 01:06PM Schools repeatedly damaged by flooding are mounting multi-million pound bids to move to new sites. The Department for Education will decide in the coming weeks whether or not to provide capital funding to at least two schools that want to move following ongoing problems with water damage. Schools Week understands

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Headteacher performance not linked to subject background, new analysis claims

January 13, 2017 at 02:24AM A new analysis has found a headteacher’s performance is not linked to their subject background – challenging previous research that claimed heads of failing academies can be categorised into five different types. Researchers from the Centre for High Performance published a report last year that claimed “architects”, often a former

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