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The Department for Education is dragging its feet on publishing the long-delayed report into the defunct Lilac Sky Schools...
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Four years ago, the Department for Education exchanged contracts on the Bowring sports field, Greenwich. The site was intended...
Read More ‘We cannot let Michael Gove’s sterling work be wasted. The former Education Secretary was passionate in his desire to improve...
Read MoreIt’s usually a three-year ritual. The day PISA results are published is the day the UK media is dominated by hand-wringing...
Read MoreTwo ice sculptures – what could be more appropriate to demonstrate the effects of global warming?
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Read More Hackney New School closed for a fresh start at the end of October after the free school had been downgraded from good 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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The suspended former executive principal of Thrive Partnership Academy Trust (TPAT), Catherine Hutley, has been...
Read moreThousands of university students could be disenfranchised if an election is called for 12 December unless they take steps to...
Read moreThe Times published three articles today about special needs funding in England. A good thing, you might think, given the two...
Read more Hanson School, Bradford, has been waiting to become an academy since 2011. Two trusts, SPTA and WCAT, abandoned the school. ...
Read more Abacus Belsize, a one-form entry free school opened six years ago in temporary accommodation, will not be moving into permanent...
Read moreMichael Gove, when education secretary, told the Leveson Inquiry in 2012 he was ‘concerned’ about any proposal which might...
Read moreVote for us and we’ll promise more funding for public services, more investment in infrastructure and a more golden future than...
Read more Nine years ago, the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme started under Labour was abolished by the incoming Coalition...
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‘I believe passionately that talent, skill & genius is distributed uniformly across the UK, but opportunity is not...
Read more‘Scrapping exams at 16 would create a better education system,’ The Times editorial says today.
Dumping...
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