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Free schools achieve highest results for six and seven-year-old pupils for the fifth year in a row

• Updated: 26 September 2019

Official figures show 163,000 more six-year-olds are on track to become fluent readers than in 2012 thanks to our focus on phonics

• Updated: 27 September 2018

Gove announces the scrapping the existing ICT curriculum to introduce new courses of study in computer science.

• Updated: 11 January 2012

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