According to Schools Week, “More than 900 schools with successive less than ‘good’ Ofsted inspections face being forced into becoming academies or...
Read MoreThis is the last article I will post on Local Schools Network. It’s time for me to stop chasing stories about the goings-on in...
Read MoreTwo heads of secondary schools in Ellesmere Port told their MP, Justin Madders, they had concerns about ‘the apparent...
Read MoreThe tribunal which forced the Department for Education to release documents about The Education Fellowship Trust has wider...
Read MoreNeighbours of Coombe Wood School, a secondary free school opened in September 2018, have become increasingly fed up with...
Read MoreThere is a discrepancy of £1.6m between what the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) says it must repay the Education and...
Read MoreSkinners’ Academy, Hackney, was judged good in a short inspection in May 2017.
Inspectors said the...
Read MoreChapel 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
... Read MoreJohnson Kane, CEO of the failed Education Fellowship Trust, ‘tricked’ the Department for Education into believing he was...
Read MoreThe investigation into the collapsed academy trust, SchoolsCompany, is still not finished, Freedom of Information has confirmed...
Read MoreOfsted chief, Amanda Spielman, published a ‘commentary on school funding’ this morning. But the blog, potentially embarrassing...
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...
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