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Eleanor Busby
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Part-time secondary school teachers most likely to leave - and four other findings on retention
More older teachers are leaving the profession, says new National Foundation for Educational Research report
24 October 2017
Need to know: Five key trends in secondary school admissions
As the secondary school application deadline looms, what admissions controversies are emerging?
23 October 2017
Unauthorised absences rise across primary and secondary schools
And the overall absence rate across schools has also risen
19 October 2017
More children hit government’s benchmark at end of Reception
The gender gap for children achieving a ‘good level of development’ has narrowed, government statistics show
19 October 2017
£10m Mandarin schools programme reaches less than third of target half-way through
Concerns have been raised about DfE programme aimed at getting 5,000 young people speaking Mandarin by 2020
18 October 2017
Virtual school heads ‘lack resources to properly support children adopted from care’
Virtual school heads welcome change in the law focusing on this group of children – but say that, at present, it will be hard for them to challenge exclusions
17 October 2017