Teachers at Birmingham primary schools are being balloted for strike action over plans for them to become academies, a union announces.

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Three-quarters of children who make a slow start at primary schools in England fail to catch up by the time they leave, school league table data shows.

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Almost a third of primary schools in Wales will not be included in a new banding structure to monitor performance, it emerges.

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Small schools exempt from banding

Private school heads are being urged to sponsor struggling primary schools as academies.

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Primary push for private schools

Private school heads are being urged to sponsor struggling primary schools as academies.

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Primary push for private schools

A review of controversial Sats tests in England’s primary schools calls for changes to English tests, more teacher assessment and a “fairer system”.

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Two hundred of the worst-performing primary schools in England are to be converted to academies.

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‘Worst’ primaries to be academies

History teaching in primary schools lacks an overarching narrative, but it is a “myth” that secondary students do not learn enough British history, the schools watchdog says.

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Primary history ‘lacks narrative’

Argyll and Bute Council draws up plans to cut 26 primary schools in a bid to save £15m by 2014.

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Council sets out school cut plan

Plans to close or merge nearly 30 primary schools in a bid to save £4m a year are unveiled by a Scottish council.

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School closure plan made public

One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.

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Men in short supply in primaries

Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled.

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One in nine schools ‘half empty’