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School admissions

June 2024

  • Back of heads of a couple of school children in a classroom with hands raised

    Record 576,000 pupils have special needs support plan in England

    New DfE figures reveal big jump in children requiring support, putting pressure on schools and councils

May 2024

  • school classroom

    England to scrap 50% rule on faith school admissions

    Allowing 100% faith-based access would be divisive and likely penalise disadvantaged children, say campaigners

March 2024

  • Child raising a hand in class

    London secondary school applications down by 4,000 after fall in birthrate

    Eight in 10 nationally get first choice of school while capital’s falling numbers are likely to squeeze budgets

February 2024

  • Child writing at a table, next to adult

    Number of children home schooled in England rises by more than 10,000

    Mental health being increasingly cited as main reason for parents choosing home education, official figures find
  • Pete and Rhiannon Hale with their five-year-old twin sons: the family are sitting on a grey sofa and holding a picture-book and yellow toy

    Special school places allocated on ‘very fine margins’, twins’ father says

    Pete Hale’s identical twin sons are non-verbal and diagnosed as autistic, but only one of them was given a place at first
  • Children in a Catholic school.

    Must faith schools just look after their own?

    Letters: Alan Parker, Damian Murray and Paul Whitby respond to other readers’ views on teaching religion in schools

January 2024

  • A female school student raising her hand in a classroom

    London schools may be mothballed as student numbers fall

  • pupils in a classsroom

    Some comprehensive schools ‘more socially selective than grammars’

December 2023

  • Pupils in exam hall

    Observer letters
    Schools are failing children like mine

  • Primary school class

    Primary schools in England close, merge and shrink as pupil numbers fall

November 2023

  • Schoolchildren queueing for food

    Trying to choose a school in England? Don’t rely on Ofsted reports

  • Backs of children sitting in classroom with hands up as teachers stands at white board

    Ofsted’s ‘simplistic judgments’ no longer fit for purpose, schools experts warn

October 2023

  • The nads of a primary school pupil assembling multicoloured magnetic letters on a board

    Catholic and C of E primary schools in England ‘take fewer Send pupils’

    LSE research suggests faith-based admissions requirements deter disadvantaged children

August 2023

  • A girl reads aloud during an English lesson at a grammar school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

    English regions dominated by grammar schools do not improve grades, study says

    Pupils in grammar school areas experience little boost in results, while grades among brightest may actually be lower

April 2023

  • Sonia Sodha

    We rely too much on Ofsted. It is a blunt tool that fails children, parents and schools

    Sonia Sodha
    Its judgments are often inaccurate and outdated and they put undue stress on heads and teachers. We need a more intelligent approach to inspections

March 2023

  • legs of children in school uniforms

    Thousands of pupils in England lose out on first-choice secondary school place

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school, blurred movement

    England’s poorer pupils face ‘geographic exclusion’ from top state schools – study

February 2023

  • Pupils at King Edward VI high school for girls in Birmingham

    Poorer pupils still missing out on grammar school places in England

    Research reveals children struggling across many parts of country despite changes aimed at helping them get in

January 2023

  • An empty primary school classroom

    Primary schools in London ‘may need to merge or close’ as intakes dwindle

    Report by London Councils says falling birthrate, Brexit and Covid-era flight from cities causing sharp fall in pupil numbers

July 2022

  • Secondary school pupils moving by a window in a school.

    Education of children in care in England held back by ‘system failings’

    Report by MPs calls for academies that illegally turn away looked-after children to be punished by Ofsted
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