Supporting your local school
Nearly £8m was awarded in grant funding (aka transfer fees) to academies which changed hands in financial year 2018/19,...
Read MoreFalmouth School, Cornwall, has been served with a ‘Termination Warning Letter’ by Dominic Herrington, the National Schools...
Read More Nine academies run by notorious academy trust Bright Tribe were transferred to new trusts in the financial year 2018/19,...
Read MoreThe total cost of transferring academies from one trust to another now totals £31m, newly released Department for Education data...
Read More It’s vital to fight fake news, education secretary Damian Hinds said in a recent press release.
He’s...
Read More Fulwood Academy in Preston has been less than good since it opened in 2009. It’s surprising, then, that the stand-alone academy...
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When Donald met Ron
In the autumn of 2016, Donald Trump paid a visit to a charter school in Cleveland, Ohio. Candidate Trump gave a...
Read moreIt’s nearly nine years since the Academies Act was propelled through Parliament with the speed usually reserved for emergency...
Read moreTranscripts on government websites of speeches by politicians and officials are usually accompanied by the speaker’s mugshot. But this wasn’t the...
Read moreLocal authority maintained schools are slightly more likely to be good or better than academies, newly-released data from the...
Read more Michael Gove, environment secretary, told the BBC* he was ‘ready’ to join the Tory leadership battle. ‘Ready’ to unite the...
Read more Michael Gove’s bid to become the next prime minister began with contemplating the fickle nature of fate. What would have...
Read moreAcademies should be allowed to return to the stewardship of their local authority if teachers, parents and locals support the...
Read moreBright Tribe and its associated trust, ALAT, face a possible £1.8m clawback by the Department for Education, Schools Week...
Read more An alternative provision unit run by TBAP, the academy trust investigated by Panorama in March after whistleblowers alleged...
Read more Should there be a rule preventing MPs from repeating questions that have already been adressed many times in the current...
Read more Bright Tribe Trust and Perry Beeches The Academy Trust are both still listed on the Department for Education’s approved academy...
Read moreThe Department for Education has written off up to £5.7m owed by the notorious academy trust, SchoolsCompany, Schools Week...
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