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• New college support teams to raise standards and drive growth

  10-11-2025 13:34 via gov.uk
  Government introduces Regional Improvement Teams to help underperforming colleges to turn things around.
  
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• Interim Director for Fair Access and Participation appointed

  10-11-2025 10:57 via gov.uk
  Professor Chris Millward appointed as Interim Director for Fair Access and Participation
  
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• Guidance: College oversight, improvement and intervention

  10-11-2025 01:01 via gov.uk
  How the government helps colleges improve financial resilience, quality and performance.
  
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• 'Substantial' risk to life from fire in school, report finds

  07-11-2025 12:58 via bbc.com
  The BBC has seen the report which points out issues with fire doors, fire exits and the storage of combustibles at Lenzie Academy.
  
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• School-level annual school census: guide to submitting data

  07-11-2025 10:37 via gov.uk
  How independent schools must collect and submit data for the school-level annual school census (SLASC).
  
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• Schools disrupted as support staff strike over pay

  06-11-2025 17:19 via bbc.com
  A dozen schools in the Cathedral Schools Trust are shut or partially closed because of the two-day action.
  
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• Guidance: High needs funding: due diligence process for special post-16 providers

  06-11-2025 15:45 via gov.uk
  Information outlining the process for securing grant funding from the Department for Education to support high needs education provision for students.
  
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• Teacher ban for drinking and crashing into gates

  06-11-2025 14:09 via bbc.com
  Michelle Stant is found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct at a misconduct hearing.
  
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• Submit a school land transaction proposal

  06-11-2025 13:20 via gov.uk
  Which forms you need to complete when submitting a school land transaction proposal and when you need to involve the Secretary of State for Education.
  
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• University to suspend music and language courses

  06-11-2025 11:03 via bbc.com
  In a statement the institution also says it is "proposing to reduce its nursing offer".
  
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• Guidance: Setting executive salaries: guidance for academy trusts

  06-11-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  Guidance to support academy trusts setting levels of pay for executive leaders.
  
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• Sheeran praises curriculum changes which mean more kids will study music

  05-11-2025 19:31 via bbc.com
  Ministers are making changes to the curriculum in England after a review of what is taught in schools.
  
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• School exclusion reviews data collection: how to submit data

  05-11-2025 17:30 via gov.uk
  How local authorities should submit information about reviews of cases where schools have suspended or expelled pupils.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE Update: 5 November 2025

  05-11-2025 16:32 via gov.uk
  Latest information and actions from the Department for Education about funding, assurance and resource management, for academies, local authorities and further education providers.
  
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• Dame Annie Hudson to lead review of Social Work England

  05-11-2025 15:59 via gov.uk
  An independent review into the operations of Social Work England has been launched to ensure that social workers are properly supporting vulnerable people.
  
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• Independent review of social work regulation: call for evidence

  05-11-2025 13:52 via gov.uk
  We want to hear from social workers, training providers and people with experience of social work as part of the independent review of social work regulation.
  
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• Guidance: Enter learning data (ELD): set up your ILR and manage your data

  05-11-2025 11:00 via gov.uk
  The enter learning data (ELD) service helps learning providers manage their data and get the right structure for their individualised learner record (ILR) files.
  
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• Policy paper: Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report: government response

  05-11-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  The government’s response to the independent review of the curriculum, assessment and qualifications system in England.
  
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• Guidance: High needs funding arrangements: 2026 to 2027

  05-11-2025 10:00 via gov.uk
  Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2026 to 2027 financial and academic year.
  
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• Guidance: Children looked after return 2026 to 2027: technical specifications

  05-11-2025 09:50 via gov.uk
  Data submission specifications for the children looked after (CLA) return for 2026 to 2027.
  
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• Guidance: Children looked after return 2026 to 2027: guide

  05-11-2025 09:50 via gov.uk
  Guide for local authorities submitting the children looked after data return for the year 2026 to 2027.
  
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• Independent report: Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report

  05-11-2025 07:00 via gov.uk
  The conclusions and recommendations of the independent review of the curriculum, assessment and qualifications system in England.
  
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• New curriculum to give young people the skills for life and work

  04-11-2025 23:30 via gov.uk
  Government to set out plans to bring the curriculum into the modern day and help young people step into the future.
  
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• Son who sued parents must stay at Ghana boarding school, judge rules

  04-11-2025 16:17 via bbc.com
  The boy, 14 and from London, took his parents to court after they sent him to school in Africa.
  
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• Government acts to tackle rising childhood obesity epidemic

  04-11-2025 15:36 via gov.uk
  The government will underline its commitment to get children heathier and more active following new figures revealing the scale of the childhood obesity problem
  
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• New university being considered for seaside town

  04-11-2025 14:37 via bbc.com
  Dorset Council is considering a number of proposals for Weymouth, including a new university.
  
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• Guidance: 14 to 16-year-old pupil premium and free meals data return 2025 to 2026: guidance for completing the form

  04-11-2025 11:25 via gov.uk
  Guidance for colleges to report the number of their students eligible for pupil premium and free meals in the 2025 to 2026 academic year
  
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• China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police

  03-11-2025 23:29 via bbc.com
  Sensitive researchinto alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.
  
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• Headteachers’ union considers strikes after judge rejects case against Ofsted

  03-11-2025 20:08
  Union had sought permission to apply for judicial review over watchdog’s new inspection frameworkA headteachers’ union is to consult members about possible industrial action after a high court judge dismissed its attempt to challenge Ofsted’s new inspection regime for schools in England.The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) sought permission to apply for a judicial review, claiming the schools’ watchdog failed to adequately consult on the new framework or give
  
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• Head teachers to be consulted on strike action over new Ofsted inspections

  03-11-2025 18:35 via bbc.com
  New Ofsted inspections will go ahead as planned this month after the NAHT union's failed legal challenge.
  
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• Shoe protest highlights 'forgotten' Send children

  03-11-2025 15:37 via bbc.com
  Shoes are left at council offices to highlight issues of children with special educational needs.
  
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• Pupils welcome limits on smartphones in schools

  03-11-2025 07:33 via bbc.com
  Students in Northamptonshire share their views about having mobile phones on them in school.
  
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• UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China

  03-11-2025 06:00
  Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the Guardian can reveal.In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered
  
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• I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent

  02-11-2025 16:32
  Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lostIf you judged modern boyhood from the headlines, you’d think we were broken – radicalised, misogynistic, angry. But as a teenage boy myself, I don’t see a generation of lost boys around me. I see young men trying to make sense of a world that seems apathetic to our voices.I’d be the first to admit that there are serious issues facing
  
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• Can teacher shortages be solved by attracting career changers?

  02-11-2025 08:24 via bbc.com
  The North East has seen the biggest fall in trainee teachers in England, down by 56% since 2019-20.
  
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• Not having the time of your life at uni? You're not alone

  02-11-2025 04:16 via bbc.com
  Many freshers come with high expectations of what they imagine will be the best years of their lives.
  
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• Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests

  01-11-2025 10:00
  Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class childrenBridget Phillipson has said she is ready to take on the unions in a battle over compulsory reading tests for 13-year-olds and more extracurricular activities for all children to prevent them becoming “stuck in a doom loop of detachment” from school.The education secretary said that teaching unions, who have argued the tests were “unnecessary and distracting&rd
  
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• Guidance: Expert advisory group on further education (FE) teacher training and development

  31-10-2025 17:31 via gov.uk
  Membership and details of an expert advisory group on teacher training and development in further education.
  
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• ‘Young Tories are fed up’: the students switching to Reform in big numbers

  31-10-2025 15:31
  As ‘nasty split’ emerges on campuses, one Conservative society has opted to merge with their rightwing rivalsUK politics live – latest updatesLast year’s freshers’ fair was a dismal time for Newcastle University’s Conservative society, with just six new students showing any interest in joining at the start of the autumn term.But this year’s event brought dozens of students showing up with renewed enthusiasm – after the Tory students merged with the
  
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• How young people can use their online gaming skills to fight cybercrime – and what parents can do to help them

  31-10-2025 13:22
  For many young people, the online gaming world is a refuge, as well as a place to build up their digital skills through gaming and coding. Now, a new initiative to offer pathways into cybersecurity could help them put these talents to useThe superfast evolution of technology can create a digital divide between parents and their teens. Gen X and millennials may have had their childhoods transformed by tech, but they’re now parenting generations Z, Alpha and Beta who are traversing entirely
  
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• Move over, gender studies: the conservative tide coming for US universities

  31-10-2025 12:00
  Deeming universities too leftwing, outside donors and state governments are sponsoring curricula that center the classics, Christianity and the ‘great books’ of western civilizationA small conservative revolution has swept the humanities at some US colleges and universities. Its vanguard are new programs, called centers or institutes, that have begun cropping up at schools in recent years. Often funded by outside donors or earmarks from state governments, the programs tend to bear na
  
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• Soaring costs trigger calls to address transport for Send pupils in England

  31-10-2025 06:00
  National Audit Office finds £415m overspend as more children travel farther to schools that meet their needsHome-to-school transport costs in England have risen to £2.3bn a year, as increasing numbers of children with special educational needs and disabilities travel farther afield to schools that can meet their requirements, according to a report.More than half a million children and young people up to the age of 25 now get council-funded transport from their home to school or colle
  
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• Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letting agent apologises – as it happened

  30-10-2025 19:50
  No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves’ husband and letting agentRachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new informationRobert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the rental licence error. He explains why in a post on social media. Here is an extract.Kemi Badenoch’s call for Starmer to sack Reeves, for failing to register her family home when she
  
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• Transparency data: Teachers’ pension scheme payments: 2025 to 2026

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Teachers’ pension scheme payments made on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
  
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• Transparency data: Initial teacher training application reports: monthly statistics

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Find the latest monthly statistics on initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment.
  
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• Transparency data: Independent schools: applications, changes and closures

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Number of independent school applications, changes and closures processed by the Department for Education (DfE).
  
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• Transparency data: DfE: ministerial overseas travel and meetings, April to June 2025

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Data on ministers’ overseas travel and meetings with external individuals and organisations.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE and executive agency spend over £25,000: 2025 to 2026

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Spending over £25,000 by the Department for Education (DfE) and its executive agencies during the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
  
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• Transparency data: DfE and executive agency ePCS spend over £500: 2025 to 2026

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Spending by electronic purchasing card solution (ePCS) over £500 in the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
  
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• Research: Teacher development programmes: theory of change

  30-10-2025 17:00 via gov.uk
  Research report including a theory of change model for the department’s recent teacher development programmes.
  
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