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Workload: Small schools dub new admin list 'unrealistic'

An attempt to reduce teacher workload with a revamped and reduced list of tasks has been described by small schools as 'unrealistic' without 'extra funding'

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Net-zero: Ministers promise to unveil schools 'roadmap'

DfE has vowed to publish its roadmap for making the education estate net-zero, after admitting its rebuilding programme alone won’t be enough to hit targets

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Can online schools solve the post-Covid attendance crisis?

In total, 22.3 per cent of pupils missed more than one in 10 sessions in the last academic year, roughly double the proportion in 2018-19. Of disadvantaged pupils, nearly two in five are now classed as “persistently absent”. A Centre for Social Justice report this week concluded that Covid has well and truly shattered the online schools

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'Maths champions': Schools offered almost £3k each

A charity will offer hundreds of secondary schools almost £3,000 to fund a 'maths champion' in a bid to make maths the 'SAS of subjects'

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SEND: Trusts plan own private schools amid place crisis

Academy trusts are drawing-up plans to open their own private special schools to solve the SEND places crisis, including tapping-up wealthy donors to foot costs

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Schools funding: Leaders sound alarm over 11% budget raid

Schools would be left in a 'perilous and untenable' position if council plans to raid 11% of their budgets to fill a £28.9m high needs funding gap go ahead

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Poorer pupils less likely to attend top comprehensives

Poorer pupils are less likely to attend top-performing comprehensive schools even if they live in their catchment areas, a new report suggests

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Free school meals: Khan extends primary scheme to 2025

The mayor of London Sadiq Khan has extended funding for universal primary free school meals into 2024-25, and raised the amount schools receive per meal to £3

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Ofsted will review absence in safeguarding checks

A Labour government will use artificial intelligence to spot trends in pupil attendance and ask Ofsted to review absence as part of annual safeguarding checks

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Turing Scheme misses schools goal by over 40% in first year

The Turing Scheme missed its schools target by almost half in its first year as Covid impacted take-up, an evaluation has shown.

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