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A North London primary school is set to close for a further five days over the next two weeks after staff agreed to take strike action against government plans to turn it into an academy.

The government’s scrapping of the Now Teach scheme, which has overdelivered on targets for older workers, has sparked an outcry

Teachers say behaviour getting worse as survey also shows parents getting less supportive of school policies

GCSE results in key subjects to steadily worsen until 2030, predicts research that blames failure to tackle impact of schools lockdown

Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for September

Pilot to explore how to repurpose unused school space to increase capacity for funded childcare

Rising inflation and falling pupil numbers also forcing schools to cut spending on extracurricular activities

School rolls swelled because of fertility surge in 2000s but birthrate and migration patterns have brought decline