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May
Conservative backbenchers urge Theresa May to scrap National Funding Formula
The Prime Minister is facing pressure from backbenchers to abandon plans for a school funding shake-up. An Evening Standard investigation revealed that senior Conservatives want
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May
Healthy MindED holds training session for evidence-based model
The UK’s first and only schools-led mental health commission, Healthy MindED, held an initial training session with schools last week, as part of its aim to begin gathering
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May
Evidence-based recommendations for teaching KS1 and 2 literacy
A new report from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) reviews the best available research to offer schools and teachers practical recommendations on what makes great literacy
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Apr
Sponsor capacity to need ratio in the North amongst the lowest, report finds
The North of England RSC region has one of the lowest available sponsor capacity to need ratios and finding new sponsors could be a challenge, a new report by the National
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Apr
Free school policy 'incoherent and poor value for money'
The Public Accounts Committee has strongly criticised the Government’s spending on new free schools, as well as its grip on providing much needed school places. The
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Apr
SCHOOLS NorthEast analysis brought up in Parliament funding debate
School funding in the North East of England was the topic of a House of Commons Debate led by Washington and Sunderland West MP Sharon Hodgson on Wednesday. Figures published by
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