57% of National Leaders of Governance work in LA schools
Over half of the National Leaders of Governance (NLGs), were...
Read moreI refer to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education, who...
Read moreRise in number of disappearing KS4 pupils
Off-rolling, whereby secondary schools exclude pupils likely to lower an...
Read moreThe LSE academies report contains ‘certain assumptions that cannot go unchallenged’, says Leora Cruddas , CEO of the Freedom and Autonomy for...
Read moreIn July 2014, Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, announced* that schools in Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust (CHAT) would receive £260,900 from the...
Read moreTim Coulson, former Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) for the East of England, is now chair of governors at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy...
Read moreGovernors of St Olave’s grammar school were ‘mortified’ they had ‘probably’ broken the law when they asked A-level pupils with low Year 12 exam...
Read moreThis is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.
“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...
Read moreThe last week has not been good for schools worried about money. The Chancellor seems immune to warnings about the state of school funding. The...
Read moreAcademy trusts have been criticised when they bung contracts to companies connected to trustees or their associates. Margaret Hodge, former chair...
Read moreAs protests grow at so many aspects of current policy - from an impoverished curriculum to the diminishment of local democracy, the erosion of...
Read moreI have been reading your interview with the Guardian on Friday, and I'm concerned and not a little bit angry. Many of the views you expressed in...
Read moreThe speech by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to the NASUWT conference had a ‘relatively polite reception’, Schools Week writes. But a few jeers...
Read moreOn the 11th February parents of St Josephs Catholic Primary School have discovered through the local newspaper, The Birmingham Mail , that the MAC...
Read moreI am a proscribed organisation.
I wasn’t even aware of the fact until the recent news coverage of Schools Adjudicator Dr Elizabeth...
Read moreThe academy chain E-Act, previously know as EduTrust, is a very poor advertisement for the academies policy. Here are some reasons why.
... Read moreI suppose we knew it wouldn't be long. All those promises from academy groups that there would be no change to governing bodies and that schools...
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