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Making the case for personalised learning

Thursday, January 2, 2020

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Personalised learning approaches, often using the latest technology, improve the attainment of disadvantaged children, but critics are concerned it narrows the curriculum, finds Charlotte Goddard.

How can we help young people with a social worker to thrive in education?

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

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Doing well in school is among the strongest predictors of future life success. Although the relationship isn’t perfect – some people succeed without many or any qualifications, or return to education later in life – this relationship is important. Ensuring that young people can access and achieve in education is a priority for well-functioning societies.

MPs issue warning over academies governance

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

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The Department for Education must strengthen its governance of school academy trusts to prevent future damage to children's education and misuse of public money, a cross-party group of MPs has warned.

Half of councils 'unable to meet school place demand' within five years

Thursday, August 31, 2017

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Half of councils across the country are at risk of being unable to meet rising demand for secondary school places within the next five years, local government leaders have warned.

Children's services leaders query Tory school places plans

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

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The Association of Directors of Children's Services has raised concerns about plans set out by the Conservative Party to prevent councils from creating new school places in schools that have been rated less than "good".

MPs criticise government's free school expansion programme

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

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MPs have criticised the government's free schools programme, accusing ministers of failing to get to grips with the importance of providing school places where they are needed.

ADCS president calls for greater education role for local authorities

Friday, April 7, 2017

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Councils need to bolster their role in shaping local education to ensure schools are supporting their areas' most vulnerable children, new Association of Directors of Children's Services president Alison Michalska has said.

Volunteer school mentor numbers top 1,300

Monday, March 6, 2017

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More than 1,300 volunteer mentors are now working in schools across England as part of efforts to boost careers education, it has emerged.

LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils

Friday, February 3, 2017

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Council leaders are calling for extra powers to stop academies refusing to take on "hard to place" children who have been excluded from another school.

Government shelves controversial Education Bill

Thursday, October 27, 2016

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Plans to compel underperforming schools to become academies and reduce the role councils have in the education system will be ditched, the government has confirmed.

Council leaders question school commissioners' improvement role

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

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Regional school commissioners (RSCs) will be unable to turn around struggling council-run schools, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.

LGA chief: Give councils oversight of alternative education provision

Monday, September 19, 2016

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Councils must have powers to ensure specialist education provision for excluded pupils does not become a "dumping ground" if government school reforms go-ahead, the chair of the Local Government Association's (LGA) children and young people's board has said.

DfE to focus academisation on 'struggling' schools

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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The government's academies programme will focus on struggling schools, Education Secretary Justine Greening has said.

Charities urge more help in tackling pressures facing girls

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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A "perfect storm" of life pressures is harming girls' mental wellbeing, and government and schools need to do more to help reduce them, two children's charities have said. ??

MPs call on Ofsted and DfE to tackle sexual harassment in schools

Monday, September 12, 2016

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Ofsted and the Department for Education are failing to tackle the "shocking scale" of sexual harassment and violence in schools, MPs have warned.

Academies fail disadvantaged children, finds charity

Thursday, July 7, 2016

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Education outcomes for disadvantaged children attending schools that are part of multi-academy trusts have deteriorated over the past three years, Sutton Trust analysis has found.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

Monday, June 6, 2016

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Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

Daily roundup: Tougher teaching tests, adoption parties and monitoring academies

Monday, June 6, 2016

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Plans to improve teacher standards announced, positive response to "adoption party" pilots, and LGA call for council role in education, all in the news today.

Petitions opposing academy plans gain more than 200,000 signatures

Monday, June 6, 2016

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Two petitions opposing government plans to turn all schools into academies have both gained more than 100,000 signatures.

Revised white paper: key points

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

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After widespread protest, the government has axed plans to force all schools in England to become academies

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