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They believe they will be better at developing basic literacy and maths skills than senior schools – and the first school should be named soon

More than pound;100m is spent to help pupils from poorer homes as private schools act to counter threat to charitable status. David Marley reports

PGCE courses do not devote enough time to teaching pupils with learning difficulties and disabilities, says Ofsted

Ofsted to raise bar on qualifications of after-school club staff. The quality of childcare in after-school clubs is worse than in all other settings, with inspectors worried that rigorous background checks are not being made on staff.

`Human scale’ units within secondary designed to stop pupils being lost in system