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23
Jun

Queen's Speech 2017: SCHOOLS NorthEast response

SCHOOLS NorthEast, the representative body for all 1,250 schools in the region, welcomes the Government’s commitment to fairer funding for schools, reform of technical education

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15
Jun

School leaders urge Government to do more on mental health

At SCHOOLS NorthEast’s inaugural Healthy MindED Conference last week, delegates told us what the government needs to do to improve mental health and wellbeing in schools.

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15
Jun

North East has the most pupils offered first preference school

A higher proportion of pupils received offers from their first preference school in the North East than any other region. This week the Government released statistics on primary

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15
Jun

Ofsted proposes changes to short inspections

A full inspection would be completed within a maximum of 15 working days when a short inspection converts, whilst around 20% of good schools would automatically receive full

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15
Jun

Mini reshuffle at the DfE

Anne Milton and Robert Goodwill join the Department for Education ministerial team, whilst Justine Greening and Nick Gibb stay in place. Following last week’s general

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09
Jun

What can schools expect from a minority government?

The results of yesterday’s general election has caused a lot of uncertainty, not least for schools. Here we outline what schools might expect. A new Prime Minister? Whilst

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