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Two heads of secondary schools in Ellesmere Port told their MP, Justin Madders, they had concerns about ‘the apparent...
Read More The tribunal which forced the Department for Education to release documents about The Education Fellowship Trust has wider...
Read MoreNeighbours of Coombe Wood School, a secondary free school opened in September 2018, have become increasingly fed up with...
Read MoreThere is a discrepancy of £1.6m between what the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) says it must repay the Education and...
Read More Skinners’ Academy, Hackney, was judged good in a short inspection in May 2017.
Inspectors said the...
Read More Chapel Street Community Schools Trust (CSCST), one of the earliest trusts to open a free school, is to give up its academies,...
Read More Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser who was once consigliere to Michael Gove at the Department for Education, is ‘...
Read moreEight years ago, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port gave a character assessment of the then education secretary in a debate on the...
Read more “Gove ally savages No 10 on schools…General Gove is ready for a fight to the death”, Times front page, 16 June 2014 While other front pages...
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The story is familiar to anyone who has read David Laws’ book Coalition: the Department for Education (DfE) under Michael Gove was dysfunctional...
Read more I’ll confess. I haven’t read all 237 pages. It would need more than a tea-towel over the head and a gallon of caffeine to plough through the...
Read moreUK journalists have been sucked into ‘Johnsons fake news machine’, writes Peter Oborne in an Open Democracy article. He claims...
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