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8 Feb 19
The government’s 30-hours childcare scheme is “entrenching disadvantage” by failing to include the poorest children, MPs have warned.
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5 Feb 19
Parents are being increasingly pressured into home-schooling leaving councils unable to ensure children are adequately educated, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
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25 Jan 19
Education secretary Damian Hinds has urged more schools to convert to academy status as figures showed half of pupils are now educated in academies.
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23 Jan 19
Academy schools are not “sufficiently transparent or accountable to parents and local communities”, MPs have said.
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18 Jan 19
Pressure on budgets is leading schools to resist admitting children with special educational needs, according to an education watchdog.
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11 Jan 19
The government should consider redistributing funds from schools with ‘excessive’ surpluses to bolster those with weaker finances, an education think-tank has suggested today.
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20 Dec 18
Two-thirds of academy school groups performed below the national average for disadvantaged pupils, according to research released today.
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19 Dec 18
A cash injection to help councils provide services for children with special educational needs “isn’t enough”, school leaders have warned.
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17 Dec 18
Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
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4 Dec 18
Head teachers have criticised Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman for failing to acknowledge the impact of budget cuts on schools.
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1 Nov 18
Education spending has undergone a “remarkable shift” in focus towards poorer pupils, Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis has found.
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4 Oct 18
A teaching union has said the £114m education spend announced by the secretary of state at the Conservative Party Conference was a “drop in the ocean”.
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28 Sep 18
More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
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25 Sep 18
Labour would scrap academies and free schools and return control of education back to councils, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the party’s conference in Liverpool today.
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17 Sep 18
The education funding squeeze for 16 to 18 year olds in England is “clear and worrying”, a think-tank report has said.
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6 Sep 18
Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
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31 Aug 18
With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
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13 Jul 18
School spending per pupil in England has fallen by 8% in real terms since 2009-10, more than the drop seen in Wales, according to an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis.
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18 Jun 18
Segregation by ability is linked across the world to worsening opportunities for social mobility, says education professor Stephen Gorard.
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4 Jun 18
Councils are in line to receive a total of £730m in funding to create new school places, the education secretary has announced.
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4 Jun 18
If the government is serious about improving the life chances of poorer children, it should reconsider its plans for grammar schools, says the Education Policy Institute’s Natalie Perera.
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1 Jun 18
Only one third of free schools have demonstrated an ‘innovative’ approach to teaching despite this being their purpose, according to research.
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1 Jun 18
Expanding grammar schools will benefit children in better off areas rather than increase opportunity for all, says the Lib Dem’s education spokesperson Layla Moran.
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29 May 18
The government today announced a £50m funding boost to create more school places for children with special education needs and disabilities, but council leaders demanded this be matched with a review...
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25 May 18
The schools watchdog has failed to hit targets while suffering “constants cuts” to its budget for more than a decade, the National Audit Office has said.
8 Feb 19The government’s 30-hours childcare scheme is “entrenching disadvantage” by failing to include the poorest children, MPs have warned.
5 Feb 19Parents are being increasingly pressured into home-schooling leaving councils unable to ensure children are adequately educated, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said.
25 Jan 19Education secretary Damian Hinds has urged more schools to convert to academy status as figures showed half of pupils are now educated in academies.
18 Jan 19Pressure on budgets is leading schools to resist admitting children with special educational needs, according to an education watchdog.
20 Dec 18Two-thirds of academy school groups performed below the national average for disadvantaged pupils, according to research released today.
19 Dec 18A cash injection to help councils provide services for children with special educational needs “isn’t enough”, school leaders have warned.
17 Dec 18Increasing levels of child poverty are affecting children and young people’s education, with schools dealing with ‘Dickensian’ levels of squalor, a major teaching union has warned.
4 Dec 18Head teachers have criticised Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman for failing to acknowledge the impact of budget cuts on schools.
1 Nov 18Education spending has undergone a “remarkable shift” in focus towards poorer pupils, Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis has found.
28 Sep 18More than 1,000 head teachers from across England marched today and delivered a letter to the chancellor to convey their concerns about the state of school funding.
17 Sep 18The education funding squeeze for 16 to 18 year olds in England is “clear and worrying”, a think-tank report has said.
6 Sep 18Councils have long supplied schools with services from finance to catering. With market changes, they need to act to keep this income, says Richard Harries.
31 Aug 18With cuts to budgets and falling local authority support, schools are calling for more funding in next year’s spending review, writes Karen Day.
13 Jul 18School spending per pupil in England has fallen by 8% in real terms since 2009-10, more than the drop seen in Wales, according to an Institute for Fiscal Studies analysis.
18 Jun 18Segregation by ability is linked across the world to worsening opportunities for social mobility, says education professor Stephen Gorard.
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