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Jan
North East to pilot new £130m national teacher recruitment and retention strategy
Schools North East today welcomed the Department for Education’s new strategy for teacher recruitment and retention, part of which will be rolled out in the North East first.
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Jan
Teaching Union says schools are denying teachers their national pay rise
Research carried out by the NASUWT Teaching Union has found that some schools are telling teachers they would lose their jobs if schools had to pay them the salary increase,
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Jan
Government to fund 2,900 school exchanges for poorer pupils
Secondary schools in England will be able to apply for money from a £2.5 million Government Scheme to take poorer pupils overseas on school exchanges, it was reported this week.
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Jan
Ofsted will look more closely at ‘repeat’ patterns of suspension as part of new framework
Ofsted will look more closely at whether schools are “repeatedly” suspending or isolating the same pupils under its new inspection framework, it was reported this week. A
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Jan
Three in four schools rated Outstanding have been 'downgraded after Ofsted inspectors returned'
Three in four schools rated Outstanding have been downgraded after Ofsted inspectors returned, it was revealed yesterday. In 2011, the Government announced that once a school had
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Jan
New figures show impact of disadvantage and ethnicity on Progress 8
Detailed figures showing differential KS4 outcomes by disadvantage and ethnicity were published by the DfE this week. Non-white pupils in the North East achieved significantly
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