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The Times published three articles today about special needs funding in England. A good thing, you might think, given the two...
Read More The Learning Today Leading Tomorrow (LTLT) trust has been told its funding for the Rugby Free Secondary School could be ended. ...
Read MoreThe official academy sponsor list*, updated by the Department for Education yesterday, still contains names of troubled academy...
Read MoreTurner Schools describes its mission as ‘sea-change’, committed to ‘contributing to the next phase of the regeneration’ of the...
Read More Rodillian Academy Trust which runs four academies in Yorkshire has been slapped with its second Financial Notice to Improve (FNtI), Schools Week...
Read More ‘Severe delays’ in issuing Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (...
Read MoreEight years ago, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port gave a character assessment of the then education secretary in a debate on the...
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Behaviourism is back and it’s taking over
A ‘delivery’ paradigm is taking over English schools. In our marketised education system the...
Read more Medway council considered granting a ‘commercial loan’ to the Delce Academy, Rochester, for a classroom block to house new...
Read moreCampaigners in Buckinghamshire are calling for the 11+ test to be abandoned after errors were found in an 11+ test paper taken...
Read moreThe International Academy of Greenwich, a free school mired in planning difficulties* since it opened, has been judged to...
Read more Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s chief adviser who was once consigliere to Michael Gove at the Department for Education, is ‘...
Read moreFree schools had ‘particular success’ in key stage 1 Assessments, says schools minister Nick Gibb in the Department for...
Read moreWakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) was once hailed as an ‘outstanding’ academy trust by former education secretary Nicky...
Read more Pupils in England are more segregated by ability than almost every other country in the world, analysis by John Jerrim,...
Read more Medway council considered granting a ‘commercial loan’ to the Delce Academy, Rochester, for a classroom block to house new...
Read moreThe media arm of the Department for Education has at last mentioned provision for special educational needs and disabilities (...
Read more Seventeen of 41 free schools opened in the academic year 2018/19 have no on-site sports facilities, a belated Freedom of...
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