Supporting your local school
Nine years ago, the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme started under Labour was abolished by the incoming Coalition...
Read More Per-pupil spending in England will be ‘almost back’ to 2009/10 levels in real terms by 2022/23, says the Institute for...
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Read More Hanson School, Bradford, has been waiting to become an academy since 2011. Two trusts, SPTA and WCAT, abandoned the school. ...
Read More A nationwide campaign to ensure children starting school would be ‘ready to learn’ was launched by the Department for Education...
Read More Young people educated in a private secondary school were 12 percentage points more likely than their state-educated peers to...
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Richard Tice is the CEO of Quidnet Capital LLP, an asset management firm specialising in real estate. He joined the firm from CLS Holdings, a ‘...
Read more The International Academy of Greenwich (IAG), a free school opened in September 2016, has announced its closure.
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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 moreCampaigners in Buckinghamshire are calling for the 11+ test to be abandoned after errors were found in an 11+ test paper taken...
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The Conservatives have ‘an incredible story to tell…’ said education secretary Gavin Williamson at the party conference...
Read more Thirty-seven free schools which have been open for three years or more are still in temporary accommodation, Freedom of...
Read moreThousands of university students could be disenfranchised if an election is called for 12 December unless they take steps to...
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The new Progress 8 measure helps parents choose the ‘right [secondary] school for their child’, writes the Department for Education. It’s media...
Read moreWakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) was once hailed as an ‘outstanding’ academy trust by former education secretary Nicky...
Read more The International Academy of Greenwich (IAG), a free school opened in September 2016, has announced its closure.
... Read more There’s an ‘urgent need’ to restore confidence in the system which supports provision for children and young people with special...
Read moreThe annual round for academy trusts to bid for funding from the Condition Improvement Fund opened yesterday, the Department for...
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