Special educational needs: how an EHCP actually happens
An education, health and care plan is a legally enforceable document a council must finalise within 20 weeks of a request, yet roughly half…
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University clearing: how it works and who it really serves
Clearing matches unplaced applicants to unfilled courses each August, but since the 2015 removal of student number caps it has become a…
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What academies are and how they changed English schools
Academies are state-funded schools run by charitable trusts under contract with the Education Secretary rather than by councils, a model…
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How A-levels are marked and why grade boundaries move
A-level grade boundaries are set after marking finishes, using comparable outcomes to anchor grades to the cohort's prior attainment rather…
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Home schooling in the UK: what the law actually requires
Section 7 of the Education Act 1996 obliges parents to educate their children but not to send them to school, and the resulting light-touch…
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Progress 8 and the EBacc: how schools are actually judged
Since 2016 England's secondary league tables have ranked schools on Progress 8, which measures pupil progress from Key Stage 2 rather than…
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How school catchment areas really work
A catchment area is not a fixed boundary but the annual output of oversubscription criteria, sibling priority and distance measurement…
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Peer review under strain: how science checks itself
Peer review is unpaid, overloaded and gameable, and the interesting story is the repair work now underway, from preprints and registered…
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How Ofsted inspections actually work and what the grades mean
Ofsted inspections compress a school's whole story into roughly two days of deep dives and data conversations, and the grades that result…
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