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Dec- 2025 -10 December
Predicted grades align with results for under half of KS4 pupils
Fewer than half of Key Stage 4 pupils received the same predicted and actual grades in 2025, according to national analysis of around one million grade pairs submitted by 740 secondary schools. The study compared “final” predicted grades collected in May and June with GCSE results submitted to FFT’s Early…
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10 December
Welsh schools to get solar panels under £9m programme
Schools across Wales are to receive solar panels under a £9m programme intended to cut energy bills and support decarbonisation efforts. The funding has been allocated by Great British Energy, the UK government’s publicly owned energy company, with delivery overseen by the Welsh government. Projects worth up to £4m will…
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9 December
East London school has harmful culture that humiliated pupils, review finds
A secondary school in east London has allowed “particularly harmful” disciplinary practices and fostered a “climate of fear” through institutionalised shouting and practices designed to humiliate pupils.An independent safeguarding review, commissioned by the City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership and led by Sir Alan Wood concluded that Mossbourne Victoria Park…
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9 December
Scottish teacher-number target missed despite slight rise in headcount
Scotland has missed its target to increase teacher numbers by 3,500 by 2026, despite a small rise in headcount this year, analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows. Teacher numbers remain almost 3,700 below the government’s goal of 57,100, even as ministers now prioritise restoring staffing to 2023 levels.…
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9 December
Govt to tighten oversight of uni franchising under fraud crackdown
The government plans to bring university franchising arrangements under tighter oversight as part of a wider effort to curb abuse of the student finance system, which officials say cost taxpayers £2m in 2022/23. Under the proposals, franchiser providers with 300 or more students would be required to register with the…
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9 December
Central Co-op maps sector role in school bereavement lessons
Central Co-op has called for coordinated funeral sector support to underpin the introduction of bereavement education in schools, publishing a whitepaper that outlines priorities for teachers, policymakers and funeral professionals ahead of the 2026 curriculum change. The report – The Silence is Over: Why Grief Belongs in the Classroom –…
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8 December
Hexham high school teachers to strike over pupil behaviour issues
NASUWT members at Haydon Bridge High School in Hexham will take the first of five planned days of strike action over the “failure of school management to put in place an effective pupil behaviour management system”. The union withdrew the first two days of planned strike action on 19 and…
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8 December
Wiltshire Council buys Colerne site to expand local SEND places
Wiltshire Council has acquired the former Calder House Independent School site near Colerne to create additional specialist places for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The site, now called the Northwood Centre, will operate as a satellite campus of an existing special school under council ownership. A report…
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5 December
Staff at Northumbria to be balloted over pension plan dispute
Staff at Northumbria University will be balloted for strike action over plans they say would pressure employees to leave the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. The industrial action vote opens on 15 December and closes on 23 January. The ballot follows a branch meeting last month in which University and College Union…
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5 December
OfS launches investigation into University of Greater Manchester
The Office for Students (OfS)has opened an investigation into the University of Greater Manchester to assess whether its governance arrangements meet regulatory requirements set out in the higher education framework. The regulator said it will consider whether the university’s governing documents uphold the public interest governance principles and whether management…
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