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E-Act, a long-established academy trust with a chequered history, took over Burnham Upper School in April 2012 and renamed it E-...
Read More Payments made by Collective Spirit Free School (CSFS), Oldham, and Manchester Creative Studio (MCS) to a related party,...
Read More ‘Parents fear social engineering, says leading head,’ writes today’s Times (£) under an eye-catching front page headline:...
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It was splashed over The Times front page*: Fee-paying schools ‘save the taxpayer £20 billion’. Full Fact investigated...
Read MoreDorcan academy, a stand-alone academy in Swindon, needs money for capital works. Dorcan’s latest accounts* say the academy...
Read More The Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) Trust was dissolved last November. Its one academy, IPACA, had...
Read More Aspire Academy opened in 2014 as a stand-alone alternative provision free school. It was transferred to TBAP in 2017 after...
Read more Education secretary Damian Hinds has hit back against Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal to replace primary school tests with an...
Read moreExpecting children as young as four to take tests when they join reception classes is challenged by both parents and teachers. ...
Read more The Chief Executive of Silver Birch Academy, Patricia Davies, ‘ordered schools to cheat in SATs tests’, a former head teacher told Panorama.
... Read moreThe following are my personal views arising from Greta’s words.
On climate change
Like Greta, I am with David Attenborough and the...
Read more Seven academy trusts owed more than £1m each by the end of March 2018, the Department for Education has revealed*. Here are...
Read more ‘The parents screamed and swore at me,’ says a Sunday Times headline for an article explaining why the ‘visionary head’ of...
Read moreTurner Schools, a small multi-academy trust (MAT) which runs four schools in Folkestone, is proud of the amount of money it’s...
Read more‘This Government is already undertaking a huge expansion in school places, with one million new places on track to be created...
Read moreNational curriculum tests taken in financial year 2018/19 cost around £43m schools minister Nick Gibb has revealed. The cost...
Read more Seven academy trusts owed more than £1m each by the end of March 2018, the Department for Education has revealed*. Here are...
Read moreAspirations Academies Trust (AAT) is one of seven academy trusts which owed the Education and Skills Funding Agency £1m or more...
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