Bridget Phillipson has been appointed as education secretary in Sir Keir Starmer’s first Labour cabinet.
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The government will introduce a new national curriculum from 2028, scrap the EBacc league table measure, make citizenship compulsory in primary schools and force all
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Nearly half a million under-16s in England use taxis, buses and other transport funded by their local authorities to get to school, according to government
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Education secretary promises ‘clear timelines’ are in place to permanently remove crumbling concrete Read the full article in the Guardian here.
