Neighbours of Coombe Wood School, a secondary free school opened in September 2018, have become increasingly fed up with...
Read moreChapel Street Community Schools Trust (CSCST), one of the earliest trusts to open a free school, is to give up its academies,...
Read moreA sixth-form attended by the new schools’ minister, Baroness Berridge, closed in 2018 after a post-16 free school opened nearby...
Read moreThe impact assessment* for Turner Free School , Folkestone, is ‘seriously flawed’, writes Peter Read at Kent Independent Advice...
Read moreFourteen of the top fifteen schools based on Progress 8 scores have one thing in common: they have few low-achieving pupils....
Read moreWhen Greenwich Free School opened in 2012, it was assessed at posing a high risk to five local secondary schools , all...
Read moreFree school impact assessments are compiled when a school is at the pre-opening stage. They are not published until after a...
Read moreThe claim of ‘insufficient academic pupils’ is being used to explain missing exam scores from Harris academies in a recently...
Read moreThe number of academy trust failing to meet the deadline for submitting their accounts to the Department for Education continues...
Read moreA parent who raised concerns about her daughter's education at a Devon-based pupil referral unit (PRU) was ‘fobbed off’, a BBC...
Read morePaxton Sports and Science Academy, a primary free school in Thornton Heath, Croydon, has been downgraded from requires...
Read moreThe Education and Skills Funding Agency has upheld concerns raised by a whistleblower about the Olive Tree Primary School, a...
Read morePupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...
Read moreThe notorious SchoolsCompany Trust was stripped of its academies in 2018 after the discovery of serious failings at three...
Read moreKhalsa Secondary Academy, a Sikh free school in Buckinghamshire, has been sent a ‘minded to terminate’ letter by the area’s...
Read moreFour years ago, the Department for Education exchanged contracts on the Bowring sports field, Greenwich. The site was intended...
Read moreHackney New School closed for a fresh start at the end of October after the free school had been downgraded from good to...
Read moreAbacus Belsize, a one-form entry free school opened six years ago in temporary accommodation, will not be moving into permanent...
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