Other

21.02.20 by

Johnson Kane, CEO of the failed Education Fellowship Trust, ‘tricked’ the Department for Education into believing he was...

School types, Academies

25.01.20 by

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has upheld concerns raised by a whistleblower about the Olive Tree Primary School, a...

School types, Free schools

22.01.20 by

The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) took over Goodwin Academy, Kent, from the notorious SchoolsCompany Trust (SCT) in...

School types, Academies

17.01.20 by

The Academies Enterprise Trust, one of England’s largest multi-academy trust with 61 academies, has received a second letter...

School types, Academies

13.01.20 by

The Learning Link Multi Academy Trust which runs four primary schools in Dudley has been served with a Financial Notice to...

School types, Academies

27.09.19 by

Free schools had ‘particular success’ in key stage 1 Assessments, says schools minister Nick Gibb in the Department for...

Policy, Conservative

26.06.19 by

Should there be a rule preventing MPs from repeating questions that have already been adressed many times in the current...

Teaching, Policy

07.06.19 by

60 fee-paying schools so far this year* have been sent warnings from the Department for Education after inspections found they...

Private schools, Accountability

16.04.19 by

Expecting children as young as four to take tests when they join reception classes is challenged by both parents and teachers....

Policy, Conservative

20.12.18 by

Twenty-one warning notices were sent to independent schools in November by the Department for Education (DfE), new data reveals . This brings the...

Private schools, Accountability

22.11.18 by

Professor Becky Allen of the UCL Institute of Education has written important articles about the Pupil Premium (PP) that I discuss here and here...

Teaching, Other

16.09.18 by

This is the title of a Guardian article which appeared on 11 September 2018. The following (in italics) are excerpts.

Major study of 1.8...

Teaching, Mixed ability

30.01.18 by

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...

Teaching, Other

25.11.17 by

Given Labour’s bold and exciting proposals for a free cradle to grave National Education Service, failures in the further and higher education...

Policy, Accountability

29.09.17 by

‘Thousands more children on track to become fluent readers’, says schools minister Nick Gibb in a Department for Education press release published...

Teaching, Policy

09.08.17 by

This is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.

“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...

Teaching, Other

28.07.17 by

Mellissa Benn wrote powerfully about this in a Guardian article of 18 July 201 7:

There could not be a more favourable time for the...

Teaching, School culture

24.04.17 by

With campaigning underway for the general election, the key issue in education is funding. The recent IFS report noted that "between 2010...

Policy, Labour