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Sir David Carter 'worried' about non-teachers leading MATs
It is worrying that academy trusts will increasingly be led by people from business with no experience of teaching, the National Schools Commissioner has said. Sir David Carter
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Private tutors 'should face DBS criminal record checks'
The UK’s biggest teaching union has called for all private home tutors to face criminal record checks before being allowed to work with children. The National Education
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Compulsory Mental Health education to be added to curriculum by 2020
All schools will teach children about good physical and mental health, how to stay safe on and offline, and the importance of healthy relationships under new plans published this
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Ofsted refuses to name 300 schools with “particularly high levels of off-rolling”
Ofsted has refused to give details of the 300 schools it identified as having “particularly high levels of off-rolling” in a 26 June blogpost. The inspectorate responded to a
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Bronze Rusty Bullets in the Battlegrounds of our North East Schools
Jon Tait, Director of Acklam Grange Teaching School Twitter: @TeamTait You’d be forgiven for thinking this article was about gun crime in school. Thankfully, even with a recent
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Education Links w/c 16th July 2018
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/pupil-tried-pass-salt-cocaine-14891825 – Chronicle Live, Pupil tried to pass salt off as cocaine in prank at Gosforth
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