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The Sutton Life Centre is one of several partnerships between colleges and external partners, where SEND learners are prepared to access education, and to build a future beyond it.
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SEND first class: How groundbreaking partnership are rethinking SEND support
The Sutton Life Centre is one of several partnerships between colleges and external partners where SEND learners are prepared not only to access education, but to build a future beyond it
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December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Ministers promise 50,000 new apprenticeships in bid to tackle youth unemployment.
PM says he wants to see apprenticeships treated with the same respect as degree courses.
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Ministers promise 50,000 new apprenticeships in bid to tackle youth unemployment
The Prime Minister has expressed his desire to see apprenticeships treated with the same respect as degree courses.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Officials hesitate over V Level licence model.
DfE is also seeking views on whether the new qualification should be ‘small’ or ‘medium’ sized.
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Officials hesitate over V Level licence model
Ministers are still deciding whether V Levels will be developed under the same single-licence model as T Levels, a senior DfE official has revealed.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Ministers face calls to explain how £6bn SEND 'funding hole' will be paid for.
Bridget Phillipson tells MPs SEND costs in England will not fall on core schools funding but on government budget.
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Ministers face calls to explain how £6bn Send funding hole will be paid for
Bridget Phillipson tells MPs that Send costs in England will not fall on core schools funding but on government budget
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November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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White paper asks colleges to do more with less, says @theifs.bsky.social
Skills reforms 'do not add up to a coherent strategy', think tank also warns.
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White paper asks colleges to do more with less, says IFS
Top economists warn that the government's further education and skills reform plans 'do not add up to a coherent strategy'
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November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Prime Minister and Education Secretary visit Welland Academy (part of Greenwood Academies Trust) to mark free school meal expansion.
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Keir Starmer visits Peterborough to mark free school meal expansion
Tens of thousands of children in the region are set to be eligible for the scheme, the government says.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Businesses claim offering school children work experience is ‘too time consuming’.
@careerent.bsky.social calls on schools and employers to sign up to its new approach to work experience.
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Businesses claim offering school children work experience is ‘too time consuming’
CEC is calling on schools and employers to sign up to its new approach to work experience to help give young people more choice
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November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Why do teachers get such a bad deal on maternity pay?
With women making up the vast majority of the workforce, could better maternity leave pay help tackle the teacher retention crisis?
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Why do teachers get such a bad deal on maternity pay?
With women making up the vast majority of the workforce, could better maternity leave pay help tackle the teacher retention crisis?
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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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PM says special educational needs ‘raised with me more than any other issue’
Sir Keir Starmer made his comments during a visit to a school breakfast club in Reading.
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PM says special educational needs ‘raised with me more than any other issue’
Sir Keir Starmer made his comments during a visit to a school breakfast club in Reading.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Almost one million young people still not in work or education, figures show
Almost a million young people are still out of work, education or training, new data suggests.
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Almost one million young people still not in work or education, figures show
Whilst the figure has dropped slightly, it still equates to one-in-eight young people in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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First post-Covid increase in mature students ‘sign of sluggish UK economy’.
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Increase in mature students ‘sign of sluggish UK economy’
First post-Covid increase in early undergraduate applications among mature students shows adults are rethinking their options in times of economic crisis
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November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Budget 2025: What schools need from Rachel Reeves, according to @michaelsgreen.bsky.social in @tesmagazine.bsky.social
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Budget 2025: What schools need from Rachel Reeves
With the chancellor due to deliver her Budget next week, Michael Green recommends four financial priorities that would not only give schools stability but also benefit the wider economy
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November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says @duncanivison.bsky.social, president and VC of @manchester.ac.uk
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Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
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November 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Universities fear being left out of NHS workforce plans.
Medical training organisations write to health secretary Wes Streeting as call for evidence takes ‘narrow focus’.
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Universities fear being left out of NHS workforce plans
Medical training organisations write to health secretary Wes Streeting as call for evidence takes ‘narrow focus’
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November 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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DfE announces three new deputy FE commissioners
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DfE announces three new deputy FE commissioners
The Department for Education has bolstered the FE Commissioner’s team with three new deputies amid a shake-up of its FE oversight regime
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November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Analysis of 2025-26 attendance rates so far shows absence levels remain 'stubbornly high' compared with figures from the same time last year.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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International fee levy ‘likely’ in Scotland after 2026 election.
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International fee levy ‘likely’ in Scotland after 2026 election
‘Clever’ linkage to maintenance grants could encourage Scottish policymakers to adopt Westminster proposal, conference hears
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Statutory Prevent duty led to ‘over-reporting’ of referrals in colleges, review finds.
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Prevent: Statutory duty led to ‘over-reporting’ of referrals
Independent commission into counterterrorism slams high rate of ‘unnecessary’ Prevent referrals
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November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Schools at ‘breaking point’ over SEND pressure as admission gap grows.
@thenfer.bsky.social investigated the characteristics behind "high-SEND" schools - @samanthajbooth.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social breaks down the report's key findings.
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Schools at SEND 'breaking point' as admission gap grows
Some schools are at "breaking point" amid a widening gap between the schools with the most and fewest numbers of pupils with education, health and care plans, research warns. The National Foundation…
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November 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Phillipson urged by Education Select Committee chair @helenhayes.bsky.social to outline how DfE will ‘co-create’ SEND reforms.
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Phillipson urged to outline how DfE will 'co-create' SEND reforms
Education committee chair Helen Hayes asks education secretary for 'specific' steps being taken to involve schools and parents in plans as 'equal participants'
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November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Degree apprenticeships less accessible to disadvantaged young people than Russell Group unis.
Research reignites warnings that the route risks becoming 'another middle-class preserve'.
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Degree apprenticeships less accessible to disadvantaged young people than Russell Group unis
Research reignites warnings that the route risks becoming 'another middle-class preserve'
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November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Government school readiness target ‘risky’, say experts.
Experts fear an over-focus on those 'closest to the line' as ministers impose 75% school readiness aim.
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School readiness target 'risky', experts tell MPs
Experts fear a focus on those 'closest to the line' as ministers impose 75% school readiness aim
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November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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DfE sets AI-powered attendance targets for schools.
Headteachers’ leaders dismiss new targets as a ‘Whitehall diktat’ that will be an extra burden on staff.
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DfE sets AI-powered attendance targets for schools
Headteachers’ leaders dismiss new individual attendance targets for every school as a ‘Whitehall diktat’ that will be an extra burden on staff
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November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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DfE sets out apprenticeship intervention rules for new Ofsted regime.
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DfE sets out apprenticeship intervention rules for new Ofsted regime
Sanctions on poor-performing training providers will be considered on a case-by-case basis as Ofsted's new inspection regime beds in
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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Critics claiming the curriculum review ‘dumbs down’ Gove's education reforms are way off the mark, says Sir Hamid Patel, CEO of @staracademies.org in @schoolsweek.bsky.social
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The curriculum review is levelling up, not 'dumbing down'
The national curriculum review and government’s response offer a compelling road map to elevate our education system from good to great, says Sir Hamid Patel
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM