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Tony Blair said: "Education, education, education". David Cameron wanted to convert all schools to Academies. Now Theresa May is keen on grammar schools.

What is the best method to get education standards to the highest level possible?

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A poll of over 3500 parents across the UK carried out exclusively by LBC has revealed that 85% of them who have children in private schools are considering removing them because of the government’s removal of the VAT exemption.

85% parents considering removing children from private schools due to VAT increase – LBC poll

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Teachers at a secondary school in west London have been given lie-ins once a week

Teachers get lie-ins, as schools search for new ways to attract staff amid recruitment crisis

1 month ago

Some 35,000 pupils are to be banned from using their phones during the school day

One of England's biggest academy trusts to ban phone use during school day for 35,000 pupils

1 month ago

Pupils at E-ACT City Heights Academy in Tulse Hill, south west Londo

Top GCSE grades fall but remain higher than pre-pandemic levels as thousands of pupils receive results

2 months ago

Sir Keir Starmer has told a headteacher that her private school should ‘work to ensure costs are kept affordable for parents’.

Private schools must ‘ensure costs are kept affordable for parents’, Starmer tells headteacher amid plans for tax raid

3 months ago

Sir Keir Starmer speaks with pupils as he visits Whale Hill Primary School, June 11, 2024

'VAT on our school puts us at considerable risk of closure': Private school principal's letter to Labour's Sir Keir Starmer

4 months ago

Labour hopes the policy changes would raise about £1.5bn a year

Labour refuses to rule out introducing VAT on private school fees mid-academic year

4 months ago

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Labour Shadow Schools Minister Catherine McKinnell

Labour plan to give all primary school children free breakfasts - but shadow schools minister doesn't know how many

4 months ago

Ebbw Fawr Learning Community was partially locked down

Teen arrested and school placed in 'partial lockdown' after pupil receives threatening messages

5 months ago

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EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley and Tara Woods, headteacher of Moffat Academy

Misogyny and sexual threats against teachers rising but 'under-recorded', unions warn

6 months ago

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