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The last accounts* of defunct Interserve Academies Trust (IAT), backed by troubled firm Interserve Plc, had related party...
Read More The Bishop Anthony Educational Trust (BEAT) has ‘not been successful enough’ in improving schools with significant weaknesses,...
Read More 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 MoreThe launch of GCSEs back in 1984 was a ‘quiet revolution’, schools minister Nick Gibb wrote in today’s Times*. But it’s a...
Read More ‘Parents fear social engineering, says leading head,’ writes today’s Times (£) under an eye-catching front page headline:...
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 government’s curriculum programme trials have raised serious questions about the timing of the pilots, their scale, links...
Read more We’ve been here before. The Department for Education (DfE) publishes a press release with positive noises from ministers. But...
Read moreDorcan academy, a stand-alone academy in Swindon, needs money for capital works. Dorcan’s latest accounts* say the academy...
Read more Ofsted’s decision to retain the four-grade rating system for school inspections - outstanding down to inadequate - is ‘one of...
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‘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...
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