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Sep
Grindon Hall school founders resign fearing it will "lose its Christian ethos"
Three founders of the school have resigned over fears that its faith ethos and its pupils’ exam performances will not survive a takeover by a new sponsor. Elizabeth Gray and
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Sep
National campaign against grammar school plans launched at Labour Party Conference
Jeremy Corbyn said Labour members will “hit the streets” to expose the Conservative Party’s “divisive and damaging agenda”. The newly
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Sep
Plans underway for new strategy to improve Middlesbrough schools
Education chiefs at Middlesbrough Council are reportedly drawing up a new strategy with radical plans to tackle the underperformance of the area’s schools. This comes after
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Sep
Ofsted grades for Northern Powerhouse schools "far too closely linked to APS on entry", Sir Nick Weller tells North East Heads
The school leader chosen to lead a Government review of school performance in the North has highlighted a worrying correlation between average point scores (APS) and Ofsted
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Sep
Parents – ‘You’ve got to love them!’
‘Why?’ I hear you cry. Well I sympathise. I don’t think there will be a school leader in the land, who hasn’t been brought to the point of tears or past it by an
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Sep
Newcastle United and Kenton Academy Trust team up in "biggest wave of free schools"
Over 80,000 new school places will be created in a bid to deliver the Government’s goal of opening 500 free schools by 2020. Education Secretary Justine Greening announced
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