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‘Some are going to be totally brilliant... and some are going to be set up by mad people’
When Colin Diamond went for a job interview at the Department for Education, his words about those running free schools proved prophetic: three years later, he was being deployed to Birmingham to mop up after the Trojan Horse scandal. Eleanor Busby reports
24 November 2017
Schools should stop addressing pupils as ‘girls’ and ‘boys’, headteachers told
Former government mental-health champion told the Girls’ School Association conference it was important for “heteronormative assumption” not to filter down into schools
21 November 2017
Ofsted should ‘oblige’ state schools to work with independent schools, urges head
‘Class war’ blamed for some state school heads not entering into partnerships with independent schools
20 November 2017
Schools should be wary about using ‘neuroscience nonsense’ in classroom, academic says
Explosion of interest in neuroscience has led to a ‘corresponding increase of neuro-nonsense’ in relation to education, says professor
20 November 2017
Language skills ‘must be a priority for schools as Brexit approaches’
Brexit will mean more speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, French, Arabic and German are needed, says report
14 November 2017
School removes board displaying pupils’ GCSE progress scores with emojis
Move follows calls for teachers to take emojis seriously
13 November 2017
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