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National Fitness Day unveiled to get schools more active

30/07/2015 - 11:00

Building on the success of last year, ukactive will be hosting National Fitness Day on 9 September, with the hope of making it the most active day of the year.

Regional Schools Commissioner says more information will be shared from head teacher board meetings

29/07/2015 - 16:24

The Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) for the east of England and north east London, Tim Coulson, has said it is likely that more information will be shared from head teacher board meetings through increasing the amount of information published in the publicly available minutes.

New ‘scorecard’ system scores councils on school dropout rate

28/07/2015 - 13:59

Local councils in England are to be scored on how well they tackle the dropout rate among teenagers from schools and colleges.

Exam board expands efforts to recruit markers

28/07/2015 - 12:49

Exam board OCR has started a new recruitment drive to attract retired teachers as markers, in the wake of an expected shortage.

Nicky Morgan suggests 5pm teacher ’work curfew’

27/07/2015 - 10:51

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has suggested that teachers should not be expected to answer emails or spend hours marking schoolwork after 5pm each day.

Ethical issues in sports included in new PE GCSE

24/07/2015 - 16:35

Students will study about illegal performance enhancing drug use and the the barriers that limit female involvement in sports in the new PE GCSE from exam board OCR.

Three quarters of academy chains contain 'coasting' schools, research suggests

24/07/2015 - 12:27

Three out of four academy chains have schools that are performing below the ‘coasting’ definition and may be harming the performance of disadvantaged pupils, a new report has warned.

Secondary school admissions set to rise by 20 per cent

23/07/2015 - 12:33

The number of pupils attending secondary school is expected to rise by 20 per cent over the next ten years, putting added pressure on school places.

Government ensures minority languages continue to be studied in schools

23/07/2015 - 12:31

The government has stepped in to ensure ‘community languages’, such as Panjabi, Polish and Turkish, will still be available for pupils to study in school.

‘Feeble’ response over compulsory PSHE delay

17/07/2015 - 10:06

Despite the latest efforts of the Education Selection Committee and Green MP Caroline Lucas, the study of PSHE will not be made compulsory in English state schools, and a decision will be pushed back to later this year, the Education Secretary has revealed.