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'If David Cameron's the answer, Rishi Sunak's about to be spitroasted'
Making ex-PM David Cameron Foreign Secretary shows how desperate Rishi Sunak has become, says Fleet Street Fox. He can't save anyone's bacon
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Send kids to school with coughs and colds to stop them missing class says Tory
Schools Minister Nick Gibb told parents that even a few days out of class over a sustained period can damage children's life chances - especially for disadvantaged kids
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GCSE results show North-South divide as Tory levelling up vow 'dead and buried'
Just 17.6% of teenagers in the North East received the top grades of 7/A or above in their GCSE results, compared to 28.4% in London - a 10.8 percentage point gap
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Big change to GCSEs looms for students sitting school exams from next year
Schools Minister Nick Gibb has signalled that students will no longer be allowed to rely on extra support brought in to ease disruption to education caused by the Covid pandemic
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GCSEs and A-levels 'back to normal' next year - without Covid catch-up aids
GCSE pupils have been allowed extra support for their formal exams in some subjects for the past two years following the massive disruption to their education during the Covid pandemic
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Plan to make schools open for at least 32.5 hours a week delayed until next year
Unions branded the move 'petty Government tinkering' and said the delay to the implementation of the longer week had been caused by ministers 'dithering' over schools policy
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700,000 kids stuck in crumbling schools and ministers don't know how many unsafe
More than a third (24,000) of English school buildings are past their estimated initial design life - meaning they can continue to be used but are more expensive to maintain and run up higher energy costs
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Labour bid to force ministers to reveal details of horror schools at risk of collapse
A leaked government report last year warned that some school buildings in England were in such disrepair that they posed a 'risk to life' to children and staff
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Schools serving smaller dinners and reducing meat on menu due to rising costs
Heads are struggling to plug the funding gap for universal infant school meals, as catering costs are often exceeding the £2.41 per child per meal handed to schools by the Government