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The impact assessment* for Turner Free School, Folkestone, is ‘seriously flawed’, writes Peter Read at Kent Independent Advice...
Read More The Red Kite Trust, based at Chesham Grammar School, has been sent a ‘termination’ letter for Ivingswood Academy, a primary...
Read More Fourteen of the top fifteen schools based on Progress 8 scores have one thing in common: they have few low-achieving pupils. ...
Read More When Greenwich Free School opened in 2012, it was assessed at posing a high risk to five local secondary schools, all...
Read MoreFree school impact assessments are compiled when a school is at the pre-opening stage. They are not published until after a...
Read More The claim of ‘insufficient academic pupils’ is being used to explain missing exam scores from Harris academies in a recently...
Read More Pupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...
Read more Khalsa Secondary Academy, a Sikh free school in Buckinghamshire, has been sent a ‘minded to terminate’ letter by the area’s...
Read more Academy trusts must ‘control the narrative’ which has been dominated by opponents of academization, says the Confederation of...
Read more Paxton Sports and Science Academy, a primary free school in Thornton Heath, Croydon, has been downgraded from requires...
Read moreTurner Schools, which runs four academies in Kent, owes the Education and Skills Funding Agency over one million pounds, the...
Read moreSchools receive a £50 bonus if they hand out leaflets to parents about supplementary tuition with Exemplar Education, the BBC*...
Read more It’s essential for young people to be able to talk to ‘providers of technical education and apprenticeships’ in school if they...
Read moreREAch2, the largest primary-only academy trust, has received a minded to terminate letter re Sprites Primary Academy, Ipswich,...
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The education secretary Gavin Williamson rightly defends freedom of speech on university campuses in a press release...
Read moreSchools receive a £50 bonus if they hand out leaflets to parents about supplementary tuition with Exemplar Education, the BBC*...
Read more Real terms per-pupil funding in 2020-21 ‘would be 1.0% lower than in 2010-11’ if the teachers' pension employer contribution...
Read more‘We are increasing funding for SEND schools by £780 million…’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, PMQs, 29...
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