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The Education and Skills Funding Agency has upheld concerns raised by a whistleblower about the Olive Tree Primary School, a...
Read MoreThe Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) plans to repay a £1m loan from the Education and Skills Funding Agency by selling ‘...
Read MoreState-funded schools ‘should be incentivised to develop essential life skills’, recommends the Sutton Trust.
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The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) took over Goodwin Academy, Kent, from the notorious SchoolsCompany Trust (SCT) in...
Read MoreWhen a local authority school is judged inadequate, a directive academy order (DAO) is issued. This means the school must close...
Read More Pupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...
Read More Pupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...
Read more The Department of Education ‘does not anticipate’ receiving the independent investigative report into the former executive...
Read more ‘We cannot let Michael Gove’s sterling work be wasted. The former Education Secretary was passionate in his desire to improve...
Read more Academy trusts must ‘control the narrative’ which has been dominated by opponents of academization, says the Confederation of...
Read more Khalsa Secondary Academy, a Sikh free school in Buckinghamshire, has been sent a ‘minded to terminate’ letter by the area’s...
Read moreEngland’s maths score in the triennial PISA tests has risen by more than ten percentage points since 2015 making it the highest...
Read more The notorious SchoolsCompany Trust was stripped of its academies in 2018 after the discovery of serious failings at three...
Read more What a coincidence. Education secretary Gavin Williamson namechecks the Confederation of Schools Trusts in a Commons debate on...
Read more Five letters warning academy trusts that their funding may be stopped following inadequate judgements were published yesterday. I reported on...
Read more The Academies Enterprise Trust, one of England’s largest multi-academy trust with 61 academies, has received a second letter...
Read moreThe Learning Link Multi Academy Trust which runs four primary schools in Dudley has been served with a Financial Notice to...
Read moreTurner Free School, one of four schools run by Turner Schools, has ‘exceptional scholars’, an ‘amazing PFTA’, ‘amazing faculty...
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