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Michael Gove: heads must intervene earlier to root out bad teachers.
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Head teachers must intervene earlier to root out bad teachers, Michael Gove, the education secretary said today as he announced tough new powers for schools.
From Septembr head teachers will be allowed to sack the worst-performing staff in just a term – rather than a year – as part of sweeping reforms being announced today.
School ICT to be replaced by computer science programme.
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The current programme of information and communications technology (ICT) study in England's schools will be scrapped from September, the education secretary has announced.
It will be replaced by an "open source" curriculum in computer science and programming designed with the help of universities and industry.
More children to receive pupil premium, minister says.
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Up to half a million more children from disadvantaged backgrounds are to benefit from the pupil premium, the government is set to announce.
Third of parents give schools thumbs down in new Ofsted rating system.
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A third of parents are so unhappy with their child’s school they would advise other families not to send their children there, new figures from Ofsted have revealed.
Two-thirds 'fail new primary phonics reading check'
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The test-run of a new primary school reading check suggests two-thirds of pupils are likely to fail it when it is introduced in England next year.
Government statistics show just 32% of the six-year-olds in 300 schools who took the test last summer passed it.
