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• Guidance: Replacement certificates for apprenticeship frameworks

  01-05-2025 10:30 via gov.uk
  How apprentices can claim replacement certificates.
  
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• Premier League and literary greats back National Year of Reading

  13-01-2026 17:00 via gov.uk
  The Education Secretary and the National Literacy Trust launch the National Year of Reading, urging all ages to rediscover reading for pleasure.
  
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• Prepare your education estate for the PSTN and ISDN switch-off

  13-01-2026 14:00 via gov.uk
  Audit your estate to help you replace copper-based internet services before PSTN and ISDN are switched off in 2027.
  
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• Jewish MP’s visit to school cancelled after opposition from pro-Palestine group

  12-01-2026 19:34
  Damien Egan, the Labour MP for Bristol North East, had a visit with a local academy called off ‘in case his presence inflames the teachers’A planned visit by a Jewish Labour MP to a school in his Bristol constituency was cancelled after a campaign by a pro-Palestine group, it has emerged.Damien Egan, the Labour MP for Bristol North East, had been booked to speak to students at Bristol Brunel academy, but the visit was called off by the school hours before it was due to happen. Contin
  
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• I loved my teaching job. But as a trans man in Texas, quitting was the only way to get my dignity back

  12-01-2026 15:00
  After the state’s bathroom ban went into effect in December amid a slew of new anti-trans policies, I couldn’t keep trying to hide my identity at workUntil recently, I was a music teacher in north Texas. I also happen to be trans. I have never, ever told a student about my identity. At work, I was “stealth” – a term that means that I passed as a cisgender man. Only my administrators knew I was trans, because I was not yet taking gender-affirming hormones when I star
  
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• Transparency data: Investigation outcome report: Park Education and Training Centre

  12-01-2026 10:00 via gov.uk
  An investigation outcome report into Park Education and Training Centre.
  
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• New campaign urges Starmer not to diminish legal rights of Send children

  12-01-2026 08:01
  Backed by actor Sally Phillips and MPs across parties, group raises concerns about overhaul of provision in EnglandKeir Starmer is being urged not to diminish the legal rights of children with special educational needs by a new national campaign backed by the actor Sally Phillips and a cross-party group of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs.The group Save Our Children’s Rights claims the prime minister is “considering taking our legal rights away” as part of the gove
  
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• Excessive screen time limits vocabulary of toddlers, experts warn

  11-01-2026 13:54
  Children aged two with highest screen use can say significantly fewer words, UK government research findsExcessive screen time is damaging toddlers’ ability to speak, the UK government has warned as it prepares to issue advice to parents for the first time on how to manage screen use in under-fives.Research has found that children aged two with the highest screen use – about five hours a day – could say significantly fewer words than those with screen use of about 44 minutes a
  
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• Research: Children of the 2020s: second survey of families at age 2

  11-01-2026 10:30 via gov.uk
  Summary of key findings from the Children of the 2020s (COT20s) study on the home learning environment at age 2, including screen time and digital media use.
  
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• Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government

  11-01-2026 01:01
  NASUWT says evidence growing that unregulated access affects behaviour in school and harms mental healthUK politics live – latest updatesOne of the UK’s biggest teaching unions has called on the government to ban social media for under-16s over concerns about mental health and concentration.The Teachers’ Union (NASUWT) wants legislation to be tightened so big tech firms would face penalties for allowing children to access their platforms. Continue reading...
  
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• No, private schools aren’t victims of ‘reverse discrimination’ – and Cambridge should know better | Lee Elliot Major

  10-01-2026 07:00
  Trinity Hall’s plan to target elite schools sends the message that privilege equals talent, when the reality is that poorer students are already on the back footA Cambridge college’s plan to target students from some of the country’s most elite private schools has struck a nerve. As reported by the Guardian, Trinity Hall justified the move by claiming that a focus only on “greater fairness in admissions” could “unintentionally result in reverse discrimination&
  
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• Correspondence: Notice to improve: Dorrington Academy Trust

  09-01-2026 16:49 via gov.uk
  A notice to improve issued to Dorrington Academy Trust.
  
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• Charity watchdog opens inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of business arm

  09-01-2026 16:14
  Bosses at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver were awarded million-pound bonuses after sale to private firmBusiness live – latest updatesThe Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of its qualification awards business to a private company last year.The announcement has been made after the Guardian revealed last month how City & Guilds bosses were handed million-pound bonuses after the charity privatised its business arm. Continue reading...
  
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• Sexual comments sees teacher banned from profession

  09-01-2026 06:56 via bbc.com
  A panel found Steven Battye breached professional standards at two secondary schools.
  
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• Pupils left shivering during exams as PFI contract ends with school repairs unfinished

  09-01-2026 01:01 via bbc.com
  A BBC investigation finds building issues across city schools after a firm contracted to carry out repairs went into liquidation.
  
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• Cambridge college urged to drop ‘immoral’ private school recruitment drive

  08-01-2026 21:21
  Alastair Campbell joins graduates and social mobility charities in criticism of Trinity Hall’s new policyTrinity Hall graduates and leading social mobility charities have called on the University of Cambridge college to scrap its controversial efforts to actively recruit students from elite private schools, describing the new policy as damaging, offensive and a step backwards for equality.After the Guardian revealed that Trinity Hall was to target a small group of wealthy private schools &
  
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• Scottish students could pay towards tuition, says uni principal

  08-01-2026 20:04 via bbc.com
  Prof Sir Peter Mathieson said that Scotland could adopt a "graduate repayment scheme" based upon salary.
  
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• Government to introduce academy trust inspections

  08-01-2026 11:51 via gov.uk
  New academy trust inspections to boost transparency for parents and strengthen outcomes for children
  
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• Study in the European Union

  08-01-2026 10:44 via gov.uk
  What you need to do if you're planning to start higher education in the EU.
  
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• GCSE results will be available online this summer

  08-01-2026 03:20 via bbc.com
  Year 11 students will have a digital record of their results on an app for future use.
  
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• Government modernises exam records with new app

  08-01-2026 01:01 via gov.uk
  Every year 11 student in England to be able to see their GCSE exam results on a new app from summer 2026.
  
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• Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment

  07-01-2026 19:58
  Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students A Cambridge college is to target the recruitment of students from elite private schools, interrupting decades of efforts to boost access for state-educated and disadvantaged pupils, the Guardian has learned.Fellows at Trinity Hall college last month approved a policy to approach a small group of private schools, including St Paul’s Girls, Eton and Winchester, to improve the
  
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• ‘For a moment, only that story matters’: my plan to reignite the all-consuming love of books

  07-01-2026 18:06
  Reading for pleasure rates are shockingly low in young people. So we should all get behind a new drive to turn them into avid readers. Why not start with books about art?A girl on the cusp of adolescence gazes down at a book. Her left hand rests against her flushed pink cheeks, while her right clutches the pages, ready to turn to find out what happens next. She has porcelain-like skin and golden hair seemingly full of air, executed in textures that contrast with the scratchy, loose marks that ma
  
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• Guidance: College and local authority accountability statements

  07-01-2026 16:55 via gov.uk
  College and local authority annual accountability statements and local needs duty information for 2026 to 2027.
  
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• Schools want help in 'lonely battle' against vapes

  07-01-2026 15:42 via bbc.com
  Schools say they are spending thousands on vape detectors as pupils struggle with addiction.
  
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• Correspondence: DfE update 7 January 2026

  07-01-2026 15:33 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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• Reception quality webinar series: autumn 2025

  07-01-2026 09:20 via gov.uk
  Series of webinars on RISE reception quality in schools led by senior education sector experts.
  
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• Record number of London pupils need Send support

  07-01-2026 06:45 via bbc.com
  The number of pupils needing Send support has risen by a third in a decade, government data shows.
  
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• Policy paper: Multi-agency child protection teams: regulation-making powers

  07-01-2026 01:00 via gov.uk
  Supporting safeguarding partners to discharge their local child protection arrangements.
  
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• Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts

  06-01-2026 21:54
  American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media commentsA major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state on Tuesday challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the September killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.The Texas American Federation of Teachers, which represents approximately 66,000 public school e
  
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