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Schools forced to cut back on support for Send pupils in England, poll finds

England](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england) have been forced to cut back on support for children with special educational needs due to a financial crisis “more than a decade in the making”, according to a poll. Seven

Falling pupil numbers should lead to smaller class sizes, says union

England's schools should be used to cut class sizes, the largest education union has said. Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), told the BBC around a million pupils

How pupils with special educational needs are more likely to see their schools close

teaching assistants that can help children with special educational needs." When another school in Hackney, Baden Powell school, closed, the pupils moved to Nightingale school around the corner. Headteacher Abigail Hopper prides herself on Nightingale

What the Dutch can teach us about tackling youth unemployment

cutting school dropout rates is through the kwalificatieplicht (qualification requirement). From around the age of 12, Dutch pupils are streamed into one of three secondary tracks, based on teacher recommendations and primary-school test results