Proposals for new free schools have to include an impact assessment. These estimate the likely effect of the new provision on...
Read moreThe International Academy of Greenwich (IAG), a free school opened in September 2016, has announced its closure.
... Read moreThe new Progress 8 measure helps parents choose the ‘right [secondary] school for their child’, writes the Department for Education. It’s media...
Read moreThere’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...
Read moreUK journalists have been sucked into ‘Johnsons fake news machine’, writes Peter Oborne in an Open Democracy article . He claims...
Read morePersonnel in the Department for Education’s PR section must be getting hoarse judging by the number of times the £14m funding...
Read moreT-levels, the Level Three technical equivalent to A levels, are presented as the ‘technical gold standard’ by the government....
Read moreBaroness Barron, like many Conservatives, thinks the recently-announced £14bn extra investment in education in England, is a...
Read moreThe SEND reforms of 2014 were right: they put children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)...
Read more£200k was paid by the Department for Education to Deloitte to wind up the notorious Wakefield City Academies Trust , BBC’s...
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‘I believe passionately that talent, skill & genius is distributed uniformly across the UK, but opportunity is not...
Read more‘Severe delays’ in issuing Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (...
Read more‘The biggest funding boost for schools in a decade,’ is the headline on the latest propaganda from the Department for Education...
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The Conservatives have ‘an incredible story to tell…’ said education secretary Gavin Williamson at the party conference...
Read more'We’ve got a branding problem with the free schools programme,’ Unity Howard, the director of the New Schools Network, told a...
Read moreFree schools had ‘particular success’ in key stage 1 Assessments, says schools minister Nick Gibb in the Department for...
Read moreThis site’s being saying it for years: reforms to state education in England introduced by Michael Gove are a retrograde step...
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