Faith schools

Fourteen proposed schools which could discriminate on the basis of faith have been named by the Department for Education ....

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Damian Hinds, the education secretary, appears to believe schools which aren’t academies are not making ‘right decisions’. He’s quoted in Schools...

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...and fewer pupils eligible for free school meals

The top ten mainstream state-funded schools in England based on...

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Repair bill expected to be £5 million

The head of The King’s Church of England School in Wolverhampton, James Ludlow, is...

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This year marks a signifi cant anniversary in the history of education policy in this country.

Thirty years ago this summer the Great...

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It’s dated March 2017 but it wasn’t published until today - the Ipsos-MORI analysis of the consultation about Schools that Work for Everyone which...

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Former Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...

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Conservatives are ignoring the ‘huge success right before their nose,’ wrote Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph earlier this month.

And what...

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71% of UK adults want more spending on education, the British Social Attitudes Survey 2017 reveals.

The survey also found 83% would like...

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Faith free schools must reserve half of their applications for children who are not of the faith.

That doesn’t mean half of pupils in...

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Theresa May’s speech on university tuition fee reform omitted one salient fact : it was the Coalition government which raised fees to up to £9k...

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Local authority maintained schools are among the best in the country when judged by Progress 8. I’ve said so before .

But let's be honest...

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The proportion of pupils entering at least five EBacc subjects has gone down since 2016, from 39.7% in 2016 to 38.2% in 2017, Department for...

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Two schools maintained by local authorities were ranked in the top ten English schools based on their Progress 8 (P8) scores, the New Schools...

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Yesterday I used the Department for Education schools database, Edubase, to check details of some academies which had changed hands.

Today...

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St Olave’s and St Saviour’s Grammar School, a Voluntary Aided selective school in Orpington, has refused to allow about 16 of its Y12 pupils to...

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This is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.

“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...

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Every school should welcome every child. There should be no barriers to any state school . Schools funded by taxpayers should be open to children...

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