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Government releases list of proposed Free Schools to BHA

The Department for Education (DfE) has today released a list of the names, locations and religious designations of all Free Schools proposed to open during waves one to three (i.e. from 2011-13) of the Free Schools programme. The release has come in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by the British Humanist Association (BHA) in June 2011, and a subsequent Information Tribunal case which the BHA won over the DfE last month.

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NASUWT: Michael Gove u-turn on GCSEs “no cause for celebration”

Commenting ahead of a statement by the Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove on his decision not to proceed with English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT said: “The English Baccalaureate Certificates was always a distraction. The certificates may have gone but the English Baccalaureate remains as a measure in the performance league tables.”