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Autumn Budget 2017: SCHOOLS NorthEast response
Autumn Budget 2017: SCHOOLS NorthEast response Mike Parker, Director of SCHOOLS NorthEast, said: “The Government is failing to meet its stated commitment to end inequality in
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Forced academisation of primary schools is 'immoral'
Academies Show hears draft recommendation of high-powered panel reviewing primary school accountability Forcing underperforming schools to become academies is “immoral”,
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Girls 'better at co-operating on problems'
But when the element of collaboration is added to the problem solving, girls outperformed boys in in every country. In the UK this gender gap is one of the largest. These results
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Schools not up to the job of finding places for excluded pupils, warns academic
Most schools are not in the “best position” to find alternative provision for their excluded pupils, a leading academic has warned. David Berridge, a professor of child and
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Children attempting suicide in order to access mental health care
Anne Longfield says she visited a school that had experienced ‘five occasions of either attempted or threatened suicide in this year alone’ Pupils as young as 13 feel
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DfE planning to spend £10m on Reception baseline test
Department for Education says it wants to see an assessment of pupils’ ‘self-regulation’, alongside communication, literacy and maths The new baseline
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