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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has waded into the row over schools collecting pupil nationality and country of birth data, tabling a motion in parliament to stop the practice. If it succeeds, the early day motion will cancel new laws introduced by the government in September forcing schools to collect the data in their annual census. The […]

Every school should have a mental health lead, evidence-based training for teachers and be inspected on pupil well-being, a high-profile commission has found. The Education Policy Institute’s independent commission on children and young people’s mental health has warned that schools are struggling to engage with health services because of structural changes, confusing geographical boundaries and staff […]

Pressure is mounting on the government to publish its second consultation on the national funding formula amid concerns the document could be launched just days before schools break up for Christmas. The education secretary Justine Greening and her team faced questions on their funding plans from Labour and Conservative politicians today, but pledged to publish more detailed […]

An investigation into the Standards and Testing Agency following the leak of test papers online has found resource constraints and a “defensive and silo culture” at the organisation, and warned of an increased probability of future errors. The review also highlighted high vacancy rates and “difficult contractual relationships”, and said staff were operating under “significant pressure and […]

Existing grammar schools could lose their selective status or have funding limited if they don’t admit more pupils from low incomes families, Nick Gibb has said. The schools minister told the House of Commons this afternoon that “strict conditions” designed to increase numbers of disadvantaged pupils in selective schools would apply to both new and […]

The establishment of a tutor-proof 11-plus test is the ‘Holy Grail’ for grammar schools, Nick Gibb has claimed. The schools minister told MPs on the education select committee that developing a test for academic selection at 11 which could not be influenced by private tutoring was an objective of the government and something grammar schools […]

A campaign calling for greater emphasis on the development of spoken communication skills in schools has been launched after teachers identified a lack of training and support as ‘barriers’. Voice 21, an organisation linked to School 21, an east London free school, has teamed up with the English-Speaking Union education charity to establish the Oracy […]