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According to Schools Week , “More than 900 schools with successive less than ‘good’ Ofsted inspections face being forced into becoming academies...

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Two heads of secondary schools in Ellesmere Port told their MP, Justin Madders, they had concerns about ‘the apparent...

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The tribunal which forced the Department for Education to release documents about The Education Fellowship Trust has wider...

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Neighbours of Coombe Wood School, a secondary free school opened in September 2018, have become increasingly fed up with...

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There is a discrepancy of £1.6m between what the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) says it must repay the Education and...

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Skinners’ Academy, Hackney, was judged good in a short inspection in May 2017.

Inspectors said the...

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Chapel Street Community Schools Trust (CSCST), one of the earliest trusts to open a free school, is to give up its academies,...

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The head of an academy run by The Education Fellowship Trust (TEFT), now defunct, described its relationship with TEFT...

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FoI requests for details of advances and non-repayable grants to academies refused

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

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The investigation into the collapsed academy trust, SchoolsCompany, is still not finished, Freedom of Information has confirmed...

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A sixth-form attended by the new schools’ minister, Baroness Berridge, closed in 2018 after a post-16 free school opened nearby...

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The impact assessment* for Turner Free School , Folkestone, is ‘seriously flawed’, writes Peter Read at Kent Independent Advice...

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The Red Kite Trust, based at Chesham Grammar School , has been sent a ‘ termination’ letter for Ivingswood Academy , a primary...

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Demand for selective places is higher than the number of places available, a recently-released document from the Department for...

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Fourteen of the top fifteen schools based on Progress 8 scores have one thing in common: they have few low-achieving pupils....

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When Greenwich Free School opened in 2012, it was assessed at posing a high risk to five local secondary schools , all...

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Free school impact assessments are compiled when a school is at the pre-opening stage. They are not published until after a...

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