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Oct 14, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 12 October 2017 (issue 191)
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Concerns over academy trusts named to take over Wakefield City Academy Trust
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RSC pushed to rebroker WCAT schools nine months before official announcements
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Revealed: New sponsors for WCAT's schools
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Wakefield City Academies Trust schools to be split between eight sponsors
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Astrea and Outwood Grange in the running to take over Wakefield City Academies Trust schools
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Oct 9, 2017
Headteacher board elections: What you need to know
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Oct 9, 2017
Ireland: Crowdcube’s a square deal for Shaw Academy
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Some multi academy trusts move to synchronise exam boards
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Oct 7, 2017
Council demands sport facilities from two academies to lift UTC restrictions
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‘Fastest school ever built’ opens for pupils displaced by Grenfell Tower fire
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Failure to find sponsors raises 'serious' questions over academisation law
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Academisation makes it harder for local schools to work together
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Oct 4, 2017
Parents wait for details in Trinity Academy teaching row
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Sep 29, 2017
Ofsted wants a change in the law so it can inspect multi-academy trusts
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Sep 29, 2017
Free schools outperform state schools and academies in SATs
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New minister holds dual roles at academy trust despite DfE guidance
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Sep 28, 2017
White Rose Maths says it will stop work if there is 'overwhelming consensus' to do so
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Sep 28, 2017
Who is Theodore Agnew? 7 facts about the new academies minister
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Agnew confirmed as new academies minister
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Academy trusts spend millions on uninspected private alternative provision
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Sep 25, 2017
When it comes to transparency over academies, the DfE just doesn't get it
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Sep 24, 2017
Labour should move on from the academies debate, says Angela Rayner
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DfE won't answer on massaged transfer figures
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Sep 22, 2017
Super-strict Great Yarmouth Charter Academy loses 20 pupils in two weeks
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ESFA e-bulletin: 21 September 2017 (issue 188)
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Sep 21, 2017
Daily roundup 21 September: Gender stereotypes, slouching, and chronic fatigue syndrome
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Sep 21, 2017
'No regrets': Headteacher stands by decision to send home pupils with wrong school uniform every day this week
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Sep 20, 2017
Great Yarmouth Charter Academy: Parents remove children
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Academies payments information: remittance advice notes
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Sep 19, 2017
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Teachers to visit pupils' homes and deliver free uniforms after parents left furious over "inappropriate" school uniform row
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Sep 18, 2017
Free school that opened a year ago set to merge with controversial Norfolk academy
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LocatEd announces first new free school
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University-backed academy trust praised for ‘rapid’ improvement
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The Expandables: which academy trusts are supersizing?
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Sep 16, 2017
Two-thirds of schools have no vote in elections that could determine their future
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Sep 15, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 14 September 2017 (issue 187)
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Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’
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Sep 14, 2017
Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’
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Sep 14, 2017
Revealed: The £16m cost of transferring academies to new sponsors
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Sep 14, 2017
Headteachers ‘too nervous’ to stand for board elections
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Sep 13, 2017
Pupils & staff casualties of another failed Government policy
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Unions demand government talks over future of teachers at Wakefield City Academies Trust
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DfE to monitor partnerships between state schools and independents
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Durand appoints new directors following Sir Greg Martin's resignation
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Norfolk school drops advice to offer pupils vomit bucket in class
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Petition calls for Wakefield City Academies Trust schools to return to councils
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Great Yarmouth parents slam strict rules at failing academy
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Greening jeered over response to failed Wakefield City Academies Trust
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Ofsted lodges last-minute appeal against High Court’s Durand Academy ruling
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Yarmouth pupils told to be in bed by 9pm under school’s new regime
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School tells parents children must be in bed by 9pm
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Sep 10, 2017
Failing Wakefield City Academies Trust to pull out of 21 schools
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Sep 9, 2017
All schools should make cash out of their land, says former 'superhead' in funding row
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Sep 9, 2017
Take away our schools, says failing Wakefield Cities Academies trust
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Sep 9, 2017
Wakefield City Academies Trust pulls out of 21 schools
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Sep 8, 2017
56 learning projects win £20m from new schools fund
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Sep 8, 2017
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End of an era as controversial ex-head Greg Martin resigns from Durand
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Troubled Wakefield City Academies Trust to give up all 21 of its schools
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DfE gives 56 projects almost £20m in first round of school improvement grants
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Sep 8, 2017
WCAT to give away all 21 of its schools
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DfE pledges more transparency for secretive academies system
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Sep 8, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 7 September 2017 (issue 186)
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Sep 7, 2017
DfE schools tsar intervened to curb excessive academy chief exec pay
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Sep 7, 2017
Academy secrets the DfE tried to hide – part 3
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Sep 7, 2017
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Sep 6, 2017
The academy chains that shared £30m growth funding
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Academy secrets the DfE wanted to hide - part 2
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Scotland: Identity of pupil who killed Bailey Gwynne is revealed
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Sep 5, 2017
Parental backlash forces academy trust to abandon school closure
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Sep 5, 2017
Before Aydin Önaç reached St Olave’s, we fought him over our autistic daughter’s care | Diane Taylor and Simon Hattenstone
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Sep 5, 2017
Former head guilty of £100,000 fraud and having sex in school
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Sep 5, 2017
Isle of Wight secondary plan dropped
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Sep 5, 2017
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Sep 5, 2017
Top universities aren't interested in sponsoring academies, research finds
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Sep 5, 2017
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Ofsted calls for urgent improvements at university-sponsored academy trust
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University-backed academy trust criticised for overseeing weak teaching
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Pioneering London academy absorbed by Harris Federation
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Half of councils 'unable to meet school place demand' within five years
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Half of councils will not have enough secondary school places by 2022: More than 125,000 pupils face missing out unless urgent action is taken
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Schools warn of pupil places ‘crisis’ as half of councils fail to meet rising demand
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Councils demand powers to expand academies as pupil bulge hits secondary schools
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Nearly half of councils 'risk being unable to meet demand for secondary school places'
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Sep 1, 2017
School places: Nearly half of councils don't have enough secondary school spaces
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Sep 1, 2017
Admissions appeals in England: academic year 2016 to 2017
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Aug 31, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 31 August 2017 (issue 185)
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Aug 31, 2017
Admissions appeals 2017: Secondary up, primary down, academies most involved
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Aug 31, 2017
'Because he's worth it,' Harris founder defends Sir Dan Moynihan's £420k salary
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Aug 30, 2017
'We need transparency,' say heads campaigning to scrutinise academies system
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Aug 29, 2017
Refusal to release academy documents fuels fears DfE 'has something to hide'
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Aug 29, 2017
Academy trust defends decision to provide BMW cars for senior leaders
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Aug 27, 2017
Ministers face calls to curb £300k salaries for 100 school chiefs
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Aug 27, 2017
School chiefs in ‘fat cat’ pay and perks row
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Aug 27, 2017
Academy chiefs should be taught a lesson about greed
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Aug 27, 2017
Costs of rebrokering academies to be published for first time
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Aug 23, 2017
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Aug 21, 2017
United Learning removes advert for ‘unpaid internship’ in school after MP complains
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Aug 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 18 August 2017
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Aug 18, 2017
Durand's court victory over Ofsted 'threatens academies programme'
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Aug 18, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 17 August 2017 (issue 183)
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Aug 17, 2017
Multiple sclerosis proves no barrier to success
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Aug 17, 2017
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Aug 15, 2017
Primary school heads pose 'formidable challenge' to large multi-academy trusts
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Aug 15, 2017
Academy spends £300,000 to get the High Court to quash Ofsted report that said the school was 'inadequate'
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Aug 15, 2017
UK education is eroded by the Ebacc, academies and tuition fees | Letters
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Aug 14, 2017
Durand: DfE pushing on with termination of funding despite High Court quashing Ofsted report
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High Court ruling threatens Ofsted’s ability to publish negative reports
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Aug 14, 2017
Arrogant Ofsted tried to destroy us, says head of academy after legal victory
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Aug 14, 2017
Durand Academy's special measures Ofsted report quashed by the High Court
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Aug 12, 2017
Fastnet yacht race: State school Greig City Academy finishes
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Aug 11, 2017
Can a school decide to leave an academy trust?
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Aug 11, 2017
Academy trust fights on to pick its own feeder schools
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Aug 10, 2017
Academies land and buildings collection tool
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Aug 9, 2017
“Generation Z naturally collaborate”: games legend Ian Livingstone on opening a school
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Aug 7, 2017
Largest MATs most likely to be in deficit, despite economies of scale
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Aug 4, 2017
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Aug 4, 2017
Just six people stand for election to headteacher board in North of England
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Aug 4, 2017
UK urged to stop funding 'ineffective and unsustainable' Bridge schools
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Aug 3, 2017
Income and expenditure in academies: new data raises more questions than answers
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Aug 2, 2017
Durand Academy's boarding school will close
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Aug 2, 2017
Tougher words on academy pay are welcome, but we need action
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Aug 2, 2017
Toby Young’s flagship academy trust ditches ‘free school’ from its name
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Aug 2, 2017
Academy trust in financial difficulties told to examine senior management structure
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Jul 31, 2017
Daily roundup 28 July: Regrets, extremism, and school funding
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Jul 28, 2017
Academy heads warned over pay after top executive took home £420,000 last year
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Jul 28, 2017
Academy trusts: notices about poor performance
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Jul 28, 2017
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Jul 28, 2017
Academies cut spending on teachers but pay out millions to consultants
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Jul 28, 2017
Applications open to create 1,600 new special free school places
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Jul 28, 2017
Academies data shows funding levels unsustainable, warns NAHT
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Jul 27, 2017
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Jul 27, 2017
Free school placed in special measures after failing to put any year 11 students forward For GCSE exams
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Jul 27, 2017
DfE toughens up rules over academy trust executive pay
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Jul 27, 2017
Academy funding falling for secondary pupils
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Jul 27, 2017
Rules on academy executive pay tightened following concerns over high salaries
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Jul 27, 2017
DfE leans on free school that entered no Year 11s for GCSEs
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Jul 27, 2017
Free school fails to enter any year 11 pupils for GCSEs because they are 'not mature enough'
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School fails to enter any GCSE pupils into exams as they were 'neither academically ready nor sufficiently mature'
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Jul 27, 2017
Academies overspend income by £280m
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Jul 27, 2017
Academies overspent by £280m last year
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Jul 27, 2017
Academies Financial Handbook
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16 to 19 education: commercial and charitable providers
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ESFA e-bulletin: 6 July 2017 (issue 177)
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School chief paid £160,000 as academy faces closure of 'crippling' costs
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MAT bosses' pay needs to be 'curbed', says academy pioneer Lord Adonis
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Sutton Trust report shows no single school structure is perfect, says NAHT
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Jun 30, 2017
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Jun 30, 2017
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Bright, poor students are being let down in academy chain schools, suggests study
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High-attaining poorer pupils are underperforming at sponsored academies, new study finds
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Chain Effects 2017: Which academy trusts are well above average?
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Multi-academy trusts not doing enough for high attaining poor pupils, says charity
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Planned increase in academisation needs careful monitoring to protect quality and availability of early education, report warns
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ESFA e-bulletin: 29 June 2017 (issue 176)
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School holds assembly for five students lost in Grenfell Tower fire
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'Game on' as Sir Greg Martin vows to challenge goverment over termination of Durand Academy's funding
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Academy trust broke rules over CEO’s £8,000 four-star hotel stays
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Academy facing closure over ‘crippling’ £21 million PFI costs
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Academy chain reprimanded for chief executive's 78 nights at four-star hotel
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Durand Academy Trust to have funding terminated in 12 months
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Durand Academy served with formal termination notice
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Danemill Primary School proposes lunchtime finish on Fridays to cope with annual budget cuts
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School improvement ‘failing’ at Academy Trust of Melksham, says Ofsted
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DfE official named as regional schools commissioner for the East of England
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Jun 28, 2017
Music removed from school's curriculum
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Teacher retention and turnover research - Research update 2: Teacher dynamics in Multi-Academy Trusts
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Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools
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Ormiston academy chain appoints former Ofsted director as interim leader
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Spielman warns sixth form colleges about drop in Ofsted grades
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Jun 26, 2017
The Queen's speech and education | Natalie Perera
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Exeter school’s uniform resolve melts after boys’ skirt protest
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England's largest primary-only academy trust Reach2 gives up two of its schools
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Jun 23, 2017
ISCA Academy schoolboys who donned skirts in uniform protest now allowed to wear shorts to class
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'Boys in skirts' vow to continue protest until school changes 'no shorts in hot weather' rule
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Jun 23, 2017
Just 150 seconds to decide the fate of a school
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Jun 23, 2017
Boys at Isca Academy in Exeter wear skirts in protest at shorts ban
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Jun 23, 2017
Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against 'no shorts' policy
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Jun 22, 2017
Daily roundup 22 June: Careers advice, DCS misconduct, and skirts
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ESFA e-bulletin: 22 June 2017 (issue 175)
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Jun 22, 2017
Magna Academy seeks ‘strong disciplinarian’ to become ‘director of detentions’
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Academies have failed as ‘battering ram for high standards’, argues leading education academic
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Jun 22, 2017
Schoolboys at Isca Academy Exeter wear skirts to class to protest 'draconian' uniform rules
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Magna Academy seeks disciplinarian to lead 'behaviour correction unit'
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Teachers leaving faster than ever – and 10 other school workforce findings
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Jun 22, 2017
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Jun 22, 2017
EFA Information Exchange
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Jun 21, 2017
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Academy chain chiefs and headteachers recognised in Queen's Birthday honours list
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Expanding academy trusts risk losing connections with communities, governors warn
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Gainsborough schools abandon shorter summer break policy
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New MAT formed by 450-year-old grammar school foundation to recruit comprehensives
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Cash-strapped Harlow UTC looks to join academy trust
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Jun 16, 2017
Government urged to show it ‘has teeth’ as academy scandals stack up
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Jun 16, 2017
Hold open tenders for school takeovers to boost RSC transparency, think tank urges
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Jun 14, 2017
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Lilac Sky Academy Trust 's catalogue of 'irregularities'
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Jun 12, 2017
Further blow for grammar schools plan as Ark boss speaks out against selection
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Jun 12, 2017
Who is Justine Greening and what has she done as Education Secretary?
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RSCs made key decisions on academy trusts they later joined
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Jun 12, 2017
Harris Federation academy chief says Theresa May’s grammar school plans are the wrong approach
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NAHT comment on the general election result
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Jun 9, 2017
'More pressure on school leaders to cross ethical lines than ever', says leading educationist
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Jun 8, 2017
Accounts reveal shocking financial mismanagement at defunct academy trust
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Jun 7, 2017
Election 2017: Tory cuts force school to reduce lessons by 30 minutes a day
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5 top tips for a sixth form college becoming an academy
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Jun 7, 2017
City Academy Hackney secondary school forced to reduce lessons by 30 minutes every day to cope with Tory cuts
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Jun 6, 2017
Labour to scrap government's SEN reforms
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Oasis academy trust denies encouraging parents to ‘home educate’ disruptive pupils
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Jun 5, 2017
‘It’s about race and class, but it’s funny, not grim’: Channel 4’s new take on school drama
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Academy conversion: five steps to keeping it stress-free
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Jun 2, 2017
Senior IOE academics comment on the General Election manifestos
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May 31, 2017
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May 31, 2017
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May 31, 2017
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May 30, 2017
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May 30, 2017
MAT for excluded pupils allowed to expand despite worst Ofsted
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May 30, 2017
Tory plan to ban school expansions is ‘not feasible’, experts warn
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May 30, 2017
General election special: How the election might affect you
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May 28, 2017
First medical needs-only MAT to open
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May 28, 2017
The academies yet to file accounts five months after deadline
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May 27, 2017
Tech transitions: UTCs, studio schools,and technical and vocational education in England’s schools
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May 26, 2017
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May 26, 2017
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May 25, 2017
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May 25, 2017
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May 22, 2017
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May 22, 2017
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May 22, 2017
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May 20, 2017
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May 19, 2017
Inspiration Trust to change turnaround approach with ‘knowledge-led’ curriculum
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May 19, 2017
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May 19, 2017
Tories pledge school cash from cutting free infant meals
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May 18, 2017
Election 2017: Conservatives will use university tuition fees to plug free schools funding gap
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May 18, 2017
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May 18, 2017
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May 18, 2017
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May 18, 2017
Move over universities: the Conservative manifesto dissected
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May 18, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 18 May 2017 (issue 173)
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May 18, 2017
Liberal Democrats would allow new council maintained schools
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May 17, 2017
Liberal Democrat manifesto: The full list of schools policies
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May 17, 2017
Ten ways the Lib Dems want to improve schools
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May 17, 2017
NAHT response to the Liberal Democrat manifesto
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May 17, 2017
Labour manifesto: Plans to let councils ‘run schools’ dropped
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May 16, 2017
Greens pick troubled Isle of Wight academy for education policy launch
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May 15, 2017
Green Party pledges to abolish 'pointless' Sats
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May 15, 2017
Abolition of SATs among Green pledges to reform school system
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May 15, 2017
137 academy trusts miss EFA’s accounts deadline
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May 15, 2017
Willenhall E-Act Academy handed worst Ofsted report possible after pupils ‘pelt inspectors with food’
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May 12, 2017
Willenhall school pupils threw food at Ofsted inspectors
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May 12, 2017
No way back: How a MAT disbanded a school governing body because it asked to leave
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May 12, 2017
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May 11, 2017
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May 10, 2017
Unions call for AET to halt £2.6m caretaker cuts
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May 9, 2017
Unions claim caretaker cuts at UK’s largest MAT ‘will put pupils at risk’
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May 9, 2017
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May 6, 2017
Unions issue final warning to school academy chain over cutbacks
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May 5, 2017
MATs' internal school inspections 'a waste of time', says Ofsted
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May 5, 2017
Headteacher board face chaos as elections loom
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May 5, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 4 May 2017 (issue 172)
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May 4, 2017
David Ross Education Trust given ‘final warning’ over job cuts
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May 4, 2017
Unions threaten action against academy chain over staff cuts
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May 4, 2017
Research round-up 1 May 2017
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May 2, 2017
Corbyn: Labour will let councils build new schools and take over academies
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Apr 30, 2017
Information for schools and sixth-form colleges about the outcome of the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF) 2017 to 2018 round
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Apr 28, 2017
Why headteachers leave – six new research findings
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Apr 28, 2017
Headteacher retention a growing concern, according to new research
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Apr 28, 2017
The academy chains given £10m ‘northern powerhouse’ cash – but failed to help any schools
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Apr 28, 2017
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Apr 28, 2017
Highland school to shut for four days after it has become riddled with fleas
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Apr 28, 2017
Condition Improvement Fund: 2017 to 2018 outcome
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Apr 27, 2017
Limiting new grammars to MATs would avoid 'dead-ends' at 11, says senior MP
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Apr 27, 2017
Open new selective schools in MATs only, urges Carmichael
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Apr 27, 2017
Academy trusts could engage parents by offering discounted flights, former Eton head suggests
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Apr 26, 2017
Governance handbook and competency framework
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Apr 21, 2017
Academies: funding claims
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Apr 21, 2017
Tim Coulson steps down as RSC to head academy trust
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Apr 21, 2017
RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust
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Apr 21, 2017
Regional disparities could hamper efforts to turn around struggling schools, report finds
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Apr 20, 2017
Academy chain shortage in the north, while south prospers
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Apr 20, 2017
ESFA e-bulletin: 20 April 2017 (issue 171)
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Apr 20, 2017
New analysis reveals dramatic differences in the challenges facing Regional Schools Commissioners
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Apr 20, 2017
Teaching unions: Around the Easter conference halls
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Apr 19, 2017
Boy misses out on school place
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Apr 18, 2017
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Apr 18, 2017
Ark's head of assessment leaving to work on comparative judgement
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Apr 13, 2017
Justine Greening: education at the heart of our plan for Britain
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Apr 13, 2017
Free school applications: assessing the need for more schools
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Apr 12, 2017
More than 130 new free schools to create more good places
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Apr 12, 2017
Grammar school among sponsors for 111 new free schools
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Apr 12, 2017
REAch2’s spin-off academy trust renamed Astrea
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Apr 11, 2017
Don’t believe the hype – grammar schools won’t increase social mobility | Fiona Millar
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Apr 11, 2017
Teachers' union urges limits on pay of academy bosses
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Apr 10, 2017
Troubled Baverstock Academy at centre of police fraud investigation
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Apr 10, 2017
Academy school bosses' 'immoral' pay packets must be stopped, education sector told
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Apr 10, 2017
Union votes overwhelmingly to curb pay of 'fat cat' academy CEOs
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Apr 10, 2017
#ATLconf17: Union will lobby Greening over ‘excessive’ and ‘immoral’ academy CEO pay
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Apr 10, 2017
Police launch fraud inquiry at Baverstock Academy
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Apr 10, 2017
EFA Information Exchange
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Apr 10, 2017
Schools invited to express interest in new £140m improvement fund
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Apr 10, 2017
UTC that ‘knocked pupils’ aspirations’ put in special measures
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Apr 5, 2017
Sixth-form college sets up its own MAT after academy conversion
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Apr 4, 2017
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Apr 3, 2017
Nine grammars will expand in £2.4bn boost for our schools: New classrooms will help create 600,000 extra places by 2021
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Apr 3, 2017
Greening heralds £2.4bn school capital funding, but money isn’t new
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Apr 3, 2017
'Ministers are not learning lessons from NHS cuts': Four education funding warnings issued by MPs today
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Mar 29, 2017
DfE seeks to lift debt millstone from 'untouchable' schools
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Mar 28, 2017
Private fat cats have got rich on the sale of our schools | Michael Rosen
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Mar 28, 2017
Government launches company to create more free schools
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Mar 28, 2017
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Mar 27, 2017
Representing school leaders for 120 years
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Mar 27, 2017
Greenwood Academies Trust set to lose two schools
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Mar 27, 2017
Former trust boss’s new private school closes after six months
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Mar 25, 2017
Four academies approved to hire pupils as apprentices and lend staff to train others
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Mar 25, 2017
'Bankruptcy' fear over transfer of three primary schools from Academy Transformation Trust
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Mar 24, 2017
ATT chief executive broke rules over chair sacking, EFA investigation finds
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Mar 24, 2017
The secret deals behind rocketing school CEO pay
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Mar 24, 2017
Council intervenes over failing academy – but told by Ofsted it isn’t responsible
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Mar 24, 2017
Academy plan will create super-heads for Scottish schools
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Mar 23, 2017
Axing of the £600m Education Services Grant puts key services at risk, councils warn
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Mar 22, 2017
Northern Education Trust academies criticised by watchdog
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Mar 21, 2017
Northern Education Trust blasted by Ofsted despite taking over ‘untouchable’ schools
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Mar 21, 2017
Ofsted: Northern MAT ‘failed to secure’ school improvements
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Mar 21, 2017
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Mar 20, 2017
Private school closes 9 days early for Easter due to cashflow issues
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Mar 17, 2017
'Underfunded' Durand spends more than £200k on legal fees
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Mar 17, 2017
Pupils moved in GCSE year from maintained schools as much as MATs
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Mar 17, 2017
RSC offered academy trust a deal to limit ‘reputational damage’
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Mar 17, 2017
Academy CEO pay: Salaries soar, but who comes out on top?
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Mar 17, 2017
Schools must get more bang for their buck
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Mar 17, 2017
Senior figures resign at David Ross Education Trust – including David Blunkett
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Mar 16, 2017
Nashville's Career Academies - music city's greatest export?
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Mar 16, 2017
Ofsted review to investigate narrowing of the curriculum
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Mar 15, 2017
Model articles of association for academy trusts – do they work?
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Mar 15, 2017
UTC joining college-backed multi academy trust after Ofsted blow
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Mar 13, 2017
Government went ‘hell for leather’ on free schools, admits DfE top boss
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Mar 13, 2017
Rye Studio School to convert to sixth form
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Mar 13, 2017
Flat Cash Ed hell
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Mar 12, 2017
Headteachers heckling, academy secrecy and the funding crisis - the TES podcast
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Mar 10, 2017
Don’t take decisions which harm other trusts, Carter warns academy leaders
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Mar 10, 2017
Funding terminated from failing academy trust
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Mar 10, 2017
Education Fellowship Trust becomes first academy chain to give up all of its schools
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Mar 10, 2017
Education Fellowship trust gives up all 12 schools over poor performance
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Mar 10, 2017
More than a fifth of academy transfers involve potential conflicts of interest
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Mar 10, 2017
Pension row delays Bright Tribe free school takeover
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Mar 10, 2017
Green Spring Academy: Intimidation and exam-fixing claims
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Mar 10, 2017
Spring Budget 2017: a missed opportunity for schools
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Mar 8, 2017
Education department goes cap in hand to Parliament for emergency funds after £3bn 'overspend'
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Mar 7, 2017
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Mar 7, 2017
Embattled Durand Academy heading to Downing Street for 'explosive' documentary
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Mar 6, 2017
Senior council official appointed regional schools commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber
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Mar 6, 2017
Council education boss appointed new RSC for East Midlands and Humber
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Mar 6, 2017
New RSC appointed for East Midlands and the Humber
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Mar 6, 2017
Timpson announces £215m to improve school SEND facilities
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Mar 6, 2017
Wealthy academy sponsors safeguard school trips amid funding squeeze
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Mar 6, 2017
School cancels Friday afternoon classes to run scouts club
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Mar 4, 2017
Academy chains could establish grammar schools for disadvantaged students, proposals suggest
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Mar 3, 2017
Academy chains planning 'pupil premium grammar schools'
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Mar 3, 2017
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: guide for schools
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Mar 2, 2017
Church backs sex education, as senior bishop says sexualisation of children means they can no longer be 'shielded'
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Mar 1, 2017
Free school recovers from fraud and teacher stabbing to win 'outstanding' rating
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Mar 1, 2017
Minister tells schools to emulate business and stop giving under-performing staff 'benefit of the doubt'
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Mar 1, 2017
Integrated local planning of school places vital, say NAHT
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Mar 1, 2017
Schools making decisions in the dark on academy conversion
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Mar 1, 2017
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Mar 1, 2017
Growth of Multi-Academy Trusts: do we need to put the brakes on?
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Mar 1, 2017
Growing Pains: The challenges faced by multi-academy trusts of all shapes and sizes
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Mar 1, 2017
Academy conversion: important dates
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Mar 1, 2017
Sutton Trust report on school admissions
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Mar 1, 2017
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Mar 1, 2017
First sixth form college converts to academy status today
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Mar 1, 2017
Number of pupils offered preferred secondary school place falls in most areas
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Mar 1, 2017
Hereford sixth form college first to become academy
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Mar 1, 2017
Compulsory sex and relationships education set to be announced for thousands of school students
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Feb 28, 2017
EPI responds to Education Committee report on multi-academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
MPs call for tighter restrictions on academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
Give councils power to set up academy trusts, MPs recommend
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Feb 28, 2017
Early signs suggest significant benefits in schools joining forces
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Feb 28, 2017
MPs concerned about performance of multi-academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
MPs concerned about performance of multi-academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
Government should learn the lessons and adopt a more flexible approach to academies, says NAHT
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Feb 28, 2017
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Feb 28, 2017
ATL comment on Education Select Committee report into multi-academy trusts (MATs)
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Feb 28, 2017
ATL comment on secondary school places
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Feb 28, 2017
NASUWT comments on the Education Select Committee's report into multi academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
Sir Peter Lampl comments on Education Select Committee report on multi-academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
The north-south divide: a tale of two academies
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Feb 28, 2017
Let councils run academy chains, say MPs
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Feb 28, 2017
Restrict academy chain expansion, ministers warned
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Feb 28, 2017
Commons report raises doubts over benefits of multi-academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
Multi-academy trusts: seven concerns raised by MPs
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Feb 28, 2017
MPs sound warning over mixed results from academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
‘Far from clear’ if DfE can cope with academies expansion, warn MPs
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Feb 28, 2017
MPs warn not enough evidence for expansion of 'unaccountable' multi-academy trusts
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Feb 28, 2017
First sixth-form college to convert this week
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Feb 27, 2017
Multi-academy trusts: Committee to publish report
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Feb 24, 2017
Businesses snub government pleas to sponsor academies
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Feb 24, 2017
Council bans school deficits amid fears they will deter academy sponsors
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Feb 24, 2017
Kathy Kirkham resigns as chief executive of Bright Tribe
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Feb 23, 2017
Significant investment needed to bring school buildings into an acceptable state
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Feb 22, 2017
School spending on supply teacher agencies jumps by a fifth in three years
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Feb 21, 2017
Oasis director Andy Yarrow appointed chief executive of CfBT Schools Trust
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Feb 21, 2017
Non-profit company to run Norfolk's school improvement service
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Feb 21, 2017
Troubled free school 'failed to maintain adequate accounting records'
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Feb 20, 2017
Vicky Beer to stay on as RSC after departure U-turn
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Feb 17, 2017
Vicky Beer reverses her resignation as regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire
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Feb 17, 2017
The academy trusts that refuse to publish pay information
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Feb 17, 2017
Expanding your academy trust: resources for multi-academy trusts
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Feb 15, 2017
SFCA in the News
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Feb 15, 2017
Government considers council MAT for vulnerable Kent primaries
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Feb 15, 2017
Lack of sex education in some secondary schools is a 'ticking sexual health time bomb'
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Feb 15, 2017
Inadequate sex education creating 'health time bomb'
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Feb 15, 2017
More women will become infertile if sex education is not taught in schools, town hall chief says
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Feb 15, 2017
Auditor questions financial future of scandal-hit Perry Beeches Academy Trust
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Feb 14, 2017
Revealed: The academy trust behind a £200k severance deal
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Feb 13, 2017
Two for-profit sponsors back out of academy market
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Feb 12, 2017
11 academy trusts close their doors
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Feb 11, 2017
School support staff increasingly having to teach
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Feb 10, 2017
Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore
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Feb 10, 2017
Booming academy transfer market pushes costs to potential £30m
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Feb 10, 2017
DfE held talks with Bridge International Academies to discuss controversial low-cost model
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Feb 10, 2017
Call to end ban on council-run schools sponsoring academies
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Feb 10, 2017
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Feb 9, 2017
Nicky Morgan: U-turn White Paper was my proudest achievement
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Feb 9, 2017
Heads 'furious' at grammar cash promise
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Feb 9, 2017
'New grammars by 2020' reveal heads after meeting ministers
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Feb 8, 2017
Cameras won’t stop the chaos in classrooms
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Feb 8, 2017
Concern over 'poaching' as another regional schools commissioner quits
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Feb 8, 2017
Baverstock Academy head called for closure of 'broken' school
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Feb 8, 2017
Convert to an academy: guide for sixth-form colleges
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Feb 7, 2017
OFFA access agreement guidance – universities must play their part to raise school attainment
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Feb 7, 2017
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Feb 7, 2017
IFS Green Budget 2017
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Feb 7, 2017
Sixty ‘orphan’ schools shunned by academy sponsors
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Feb 7, 2017
RSC Vicky Beer resigns to head new academy trust
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Feb 6, 2017
Academy accounts reveal millions more being spent on redundancies
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Feb 6, 2017
Universities failing to support disabled academics
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Feb 6, 2017
More multi-academy trusts naming their own feeder primaries
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Feb 5, 2017
Schools can raise girls' aspirations by partnering with businesses
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Feb 3, 2017
Funding cuts, academy trust finances and education research - the TES podcast
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Feb 3, 2017
Tight budgets harm standards, says world school ranking boss
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Feb 3, 2017
Top academy boss paid £420,000 last year as new analysis reveals several directors now earn more than university vice chancellors
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Feb 3, 2017
Academies should be made to take in excluded children, officials say
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Feb 3, 2017
LGA calls for academies to be forced to take 'hard to place' pupils
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Feb 3, 2017
Academies count the cost of fraud
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Feb 3, 2017
Revealed: The 23 trusts that broke rules over £4m related-party transactions
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Feb 3, 2017
Auditors flag increase in financially ‘unviable’ academy trusts
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Feb 3, 2017
Meet the £200k-per-year academy chiefs who look after just a handful of schools
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Feb 3, 2017
DfE rejected almost 90 per cent of requests to force academies to accept excluded pupils
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Feb 3, 2017
'Education establishment' deliberately published highly critical draft report, Durand Academy claims
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Feb 2, 2017
Sponsored academies lose more pupils after takeovers
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Feb 2, 2017
Michaela – 'England's strictest school' – worried about teachers being 'harmed' by pupils from other schools
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Feb 2, 2017
Academy accounts: Executive pay continues to rise
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Feb 2, 2017
Harris Federation boss’s salary reaches £420,000 after latest pay rise
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Feb 2, 2017
Ofsted publishes ‘unapproved’ report placing Durand in special measures
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Feb 2, 2017
Ofsted places embattled Durand Academy in special measures
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Feb 1, 2017
DfE not 'on top of' academy land values, admits top official
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Feb 1, 2017
Cash-strapped academy chain could spend more than £1m on PR
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Feb 1, 2017
Half of academies have spent more than their income
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Feb 1, 2017
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Feb 1, 2017
Half of academies fall short on funding
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Feb 1, 2017
Ministers urged to tackle league table 'gaming' as study finds schools 'manage out' pupils
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Jan 31, 2017
Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss
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Jan 31, 2017
MPs must challenge ministers on the sufficiency of school funding, says NAHT
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Jan 31, 2017
Multi-academy trusts swap data systems for Progress 8
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Jan 31, 2017
West Sussex governors threaten 'strike' on school funding
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Jan 31, 2017
Plans for controversial 'blended learning' academy thrown out by councillors
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Jan 30, 2017
Treasury withdraws money for schools
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Jan 30, 2017
Accounts Watch: Academy trust chief gets £85,000 severance pay-out
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Jan 30, 2017
Focus on ... Stephen Tierney: honest reflections on the current and future vocation of school leadership
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Jan 29, 2017
Basildon Academies trust issued fourth government warning
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Jan 27, 2017
Schools cherry-picking pupils who apply mid-year, says report
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Jan 27, 2017
Treasury claws back £384m academy conversion funding
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Jan 27, 2017
The economic benefits of joining, establishing, or growing a multi-academy trust
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Jan 27, 2017
Treasury should reverse the clawback of school funding, says NAHT
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Jan 27, 2017
Brooke Weston academy trust invests £1m in stocks
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Jan 27, 2017
RSC performance measure quietly dropped
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Jan 27, 2017
Regional schools commissioner league tables 2014-15
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Jan 27, 2017
Treasury takes back £384m school funding
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Jan 27, 2017
Ofsted ‘fatally neglecting’ PSHE and sex education, say humanists
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Jan 27, 2017
Academy trust that owes £4.5 million paid PR firm £78,000
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Jan 26, 2017
Seven out of ten academies operating with financial 'losses', accountants warn
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Jan 26, 2017
Debts of £4.5m threaten future of academy trust sponsored by grammar school
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Jan 25, 2017
School funding debate
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Jan 25, 2017
Statutory PSHE Bill falls victim to ‘filibustering’ in House of Commons debate
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Jan 25, 2017
Orlando Bloom to work with Manchester MAT
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Jan 22, 2017
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Jan 20, 2017
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Convert to an academy: guide for sixth-form colleges
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Jan 20, 2017
“Every school has different challenges”; united by funding pressures? | Vic Goddard
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Jan 20, 2017
Revealed: ‘Paused’ academy trusts are ducking their ban
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Jan 20, 2017
Academy chain leader ‘won’t rule out’ expansion of grammar streams
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Jan 20, 2017
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Jan 20, 2017
First sixth-form college to reopen as academy within weeks
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Jan 20, 2017
Progress 8: five things you need to know about today's league tables
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Lord Nash: Fifth of sixth form colleges have begun official negotiations for acadamy status
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Jan 18, 2017
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Primary assessment: accountability measures and impact examined
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Jan 18, 2017
Schools put in special measures at ‘top-performing’ WCAT
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Jan 18, 2017
Academy chain boss to head England's biggest school exam board
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Jan 17, 2017
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Jan 13, 2017
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Jan 13, 2017
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Jan 13, 2017
Regional schools commissioners issue warnings to two more academies
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Jan 12, 2017
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Jan 12, 2017
It's time for the Government refocus its efforts on the free schools movement
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Jan 10, 2017
Don't turn schools into 'nimbies', government is warned
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Jan 10, 2017
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Jan 6, 2017
Heads fear 'forced academisation' of faith schools
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Schools to be pushed to breaking point by levy, say education groups
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Jan 6, 2017
Exempt small schools from 'discriminatory' apprenticeship levy, councils urge
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Ofsted criticises University of Chester Academies Trust over standards and exclusions
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Dec 29, 2016
MAT set up by former Cameron adviser to remain independent after £400k funding boost
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Free-school pioneer appointed health minister
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DfE's accounts contain 'pervasive' errors, warns spending watchdog
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First sixth form college and academy trust merger planned
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Plymouth CAST academy trust issued warning notice after leadership failings
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Warning notice tells Plymouth Cast academy trust to "urgently" address weaknesses
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Toby Young’s flagship free school trust woos other schools amid financial chill | Warwick Mansell
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Grammars plan: heads tell education secretary of their 'deep opposition'
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DfE publication on design principles for multi academy trusts
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Dec 12, 2016
MillionPlus responds to the ‘Schools that work for everyone’ green paper
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Trojan Horse issues could reappear in Birmingham schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw warns
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OGAT runs course showing academies how to ‘restructure’ staff
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Ministers warned they have 'no powers' to deal with repeat of Trojan Horse scandal
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Bright Tribe walks away from struggling schools in north
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Can grammar schools really sprinkle fairy dust on struggling secondaries?
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RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands
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Ofsted sticks school in special measures, criticising ‘messy’ talks over academy status
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Open letter from teaching staff accuses Bright Tribe trust of conflict of interest in handling of taxpayers’ money
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Dec 4, 2016
Sir David Carter welcomes Greening decision to drop mass forced academisation
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Dec 2, 2016
Grammar schools plan is 'unlawful', says union
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Dec 2, 2016
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 2 December 2016
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Perry Beeches Academy Trust broke rules by indirectly sponsoring Labour Party, EFA finds
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Dec 1, 2016
Perry Beeches: second investigation reveals trust breached rules over Labour donation
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Dec 1, 2016
School bans pupils from raising hands in class
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Nov 30, 2016
Academy chain AET appoints private school boss as CEO
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Nov 30, 2016
Area review for school sixth forms and UTCs 'has to happen'
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Nov 30, 2016
Academisation will reach a 'tipping point' by 2022, says minister
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Nov 30, 2016
Primaries are now becoming academies faster than secondaries
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Nov 30, 2016
Quarter of sponsored academies miss floor target or judged inadequate in first two years
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Nov 29, 2016
Government continues judging RSCs on academy conversion rate – despite conflict of interest concerns
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Nov 29, 2016
RSC Guide: Martin Post, north-west London and south central England
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Nov 29, 2016
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Nov 28, 2016
MAT 'health checks' and post-16 area reviews scope examined
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Nov 25, 2016
Official warnings for two South-West academy chains in serious difficulties
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Nov 25, 2016
Academy sponsored by ‘top-performing’ Bright Tribe ‘placed in special measures’
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Nov 25, 2016
In this week's TES Further: why sixth-form colleges should think twice about academisation
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Nov 25, 2016
Ridings Federation of Academies issued with financial notice to improve over potential ‘£1 million deficit’
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Plymouth Cast trust criticised over leadership and safeguarding failings
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Nov 25, 2016
Academy 'secrecy' concerns over lack of headteacher board minutes
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Nov 25, 2016
Growth of the 'untouchables' – schools that academy chains won't go near
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Nov 25, 2016
Try before you buy: the new way for multi-academy trusts to takeover schools
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Nov 25, 2016
“Unusual” management plan for Parkfield Free School
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Nov 25, 2016
Ofsted: Proportion of ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ schools increases
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Nov 23, 2016
Academies are 'key' to improving schools in the north, review claims
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Nov 23, 2016
Northern Powerhouse schools strategy: Halt standalone academies, and 11 other key findings
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Pilot ‘Teach North’ scheme to boost school performance, report demands
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Nov 22, 2016
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Nov 22, 2016
ATL urges Government to spend wisely on education
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Nov 22, 2016
RSC Guide: Tim Coulson, East of England and north-east London
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Nov 22, 2016
RSC Guide: Rebecca Clark, South-west England
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Nov 22, 2016
Autumn Statement 2016: What could it mean for education & young people’s mental health?
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Nov 21, 2016
Making primary schools into academies does not boost results, says report
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Nov 21, 2016
Academy conversion does not improve primary Sats scores
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Nov 21, 2016
National schools commissioner addresses college leaders
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Nov 19, 2016
School academies breach transparency rules
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Nov 18, 2016
Ofsted praises council with worst results for ‘resolute’ turnaround
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Nov 17, 2016
Nicola Sturgeon backs plan to hand new powers to headteachers
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Academy trust finance warnings more than treble in a year
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Nov 16, 2016
Grammars will make social mobility problem 'worse', report says
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Nov 16, 2016
NAHT and NASBM survey on school business management in Multi Academy Trusts
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Nov 16, 2016
Government cancels rule forcing academics to show research two days before publication
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Nov 15, 2016
Simple transparency can stop school legal battles
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Nov 15, 2016
Has critical funding report taken shine off Bright Tribe academy chain?
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Nov 15, 2016
RSC guide: Vicky Beer, Lancashire and West Yorkshire
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Nov 15, 2016
RSC guide: Jenny Bexon-Smith, East Midlands and the Humber
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Nov 15, 2016
'Scrap plans to cut £600m school improvement grant' say councils
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Nov 15, 2016
More business managers need to train for future senior roles
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Nov 14, 2016
Grammar schools: at least 17 have applied to expand in the past four years
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Nov 13, 2016
New Aldridge Education trust ditches struggling academy
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Nov 12, 2016
Planning committee deals another blow to Durand
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Nov 11, 2016
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Nov 11, 2016
England could face shortage of 19,000 school leaders by 2022
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Nov 11, 2016
Ministers must deal with illegal schools, government adviser warns
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Nov 11, 2016
Sir Greg Martin: Durand will close if funding is withdrawn from trust
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Nov 10, 2016
DfE publishes a ‘dry run’ Sector Annual Report and Accounts for Academy Schools in England
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Nov 10, 2016
DfE to open up academy finances in transparency drive
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Nov 10, 2016
Bright Tribe investigation reveals chain breached rules – but will not face notice to improve
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Nov 9, 2016
All academy staff on more than £150k to be named
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Nov 9, 2016
The 8 most important findings from the government’s new-look academies report
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Nov 9, 2016
Sector Annual Report and Accounts for Academy Schools in England for the year ended 31 August 2015 (PDF)
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Committee Chair challenges DfE to improve academy accounts transparency
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Letter from Permanent Secretary to Chair re Financial management - 21 Oct 2016 (PDF)
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Letter from Chair to the Permanent Secretary regarding DfE finances - 8 November 2016 (PDF)
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Nov 9, 2016
Saddle your steed, Sir Greg Martin, overpaid superhead, and gallop out of our schools
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Nov 8, 2016
Controversial academy boss ‘on temporary leave’
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Nov 5, 2016
Village schools are 'at risk of extinction': Headteachers warn funding squeeze means thousands of small primaries could face cuts
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Nov 5, 2016
Government ‘extremely concerned’ over academy trust that paid CEO £82k for 15 weeks’ work
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Nov 5, 2016
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Nov 4, 2016
The Giles Academy trust issued with financial notice over ‘serious breach’ of land-buying agreement
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Nov 4, 2016
'Extreme' DfE concern over academy trust that paid CEO £82K for 15 weeks' work
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Nov 4, 2016
Outrage over Lambeth headteacher Sir Craig Tunstall's £370,000 per year salary
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Nov 4, 2016
Boss of country’s largest academy trust steps down
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Nov 4, 2016
CEO of country's biggest academy chain AET to step down
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Nov 4, 2016
Multi-academy trusts 6 times more likely to be named after men than women
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Nov 4, 2016
Harris plans vocational courses-only school (with GCSE resits)
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Nov 4, 2016
Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with less than 20 pupils
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Nov 4, 2016
Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with fewer than 20 pupils
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Executive headteacher of 8 local authority primaries paid more than £330,000-a-year
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Nov 3, 2016
Schools in debt as funding gap bites
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Nov 3, 2016
New statutory requirements for the content of school websites
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Nov 3, 2016
Former head paid £375,000-a-year for leading trust with nine primaries
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Nov 3, 2016
Critics welcome end to DfE’s 100 per cent academy ambitions
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Nov 2, 2016
The role freedom and autonomy has played in school improvement
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Nov 2, 2016
Quality collaboration should focus on improvement, not PR
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Nov 1, 2016
Cuts to school improvement grant is 'academisation by backdoor', county councils warn
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Oct 31, 2016
Analysis: schools white paper plans shelved
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Oct 31, 2016
Nick Gibb summoned to grammar schools ‘evidence check’ hearing
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Oct 31, 2016
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Oct 31, 2016
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Oct 30, 2016
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Oct 29, 2016
Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in October 2016
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Oct 28, 2016
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 28 October 2016
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Oct 28, 2016
Unpopular Education For All bill scrapped
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Oct 28, 2016
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Oct 28, 2016
The new Apprenticeship Levy on schools and academies from April 2017
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Oct 28, 2016
Justine Greening shelves Education for All bill
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Oct 27, 2016
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Oct 27, 2016
Government shelves controversial Education Bill
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Oct 27, 2016
Government formally drops academies legislation
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Oct 27, 2016
Justine Greening shelves Education for All bill
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Oct 27, 2016
Education bill scrapped after series of reversals
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Oct 27, 2016
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Oct 27, 2016
Tories quietly scrap remainder of 'forced academies' education bill
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Oct 27, 2016
Education Bill Dropped
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Oct 27, 2016
'Transitional classes' required to bridge academic and vocational gap, says Martin Doel
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Oct 27, 2016
DfE refuses to reveal its verdict on academy chain's deals with CEO's family firms
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Oct 27, 2016
Government scraps Education for All Bill
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Oct 27, 2016
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Oct 25, 2016
Academy funding must be transparent, says MP
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Oct 25, 2016
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Oct 25, 2016
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Oct 25, 2016
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Oct 25, 2016
A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings
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Oct 25, 2016
Child kept in isolation for whole term at ‘lunch row’ school
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Oct 25, 2016
Academy chain spends £440,000 on deals with firms run by CEO and his daughter
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Oct 24, 2016
We need to reform the academy system – and stop the power-hungry super-heads | Francis Gilbert
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Oct 24, 2016
Academy trusts wanting cash to grow ‘rejected’ by DfE
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Oct 24, 2016
Academy trusts should ‘exchange’ back office services
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Oct 24, 2016
Education can make you (and me) sick, says David Blunkett
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Oct 23, 2016
Academy finances examined by Committee
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Oct 21, 2016
Durand signed £2.6m deal with company owned by ‘priceless’ Sir Greg
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Oct 21, 2016
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Oct 21, 2016
Academy sponsors owe £13m in pledged funding
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Oct 21, 2016
David Carter: The weakest academies will be supported not ‘shamed’
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Oct 21, 2016
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Oct 20, 2016
PE and RE teachers are least effective superheads, new study reveals
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Oct 20, 2016
Sir David Carter: Claim that trusts failed because they grew too quickly is a “myth”
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Oct 19, 2016
Convert to an academy: guide for sixth-form colleges
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Oct 19, 2016
Sir David Carter spoke about school improvement today. Here are five things we learned
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Oct 19, 2016
Long-awaited area review guidance finally published
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Oct 19, 2016
Area reviews will result in 50 fewer colleges, predicts FE commissioner
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Oct 19, 2016
Heads go to Downing Street with 'dire' funding warning
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Oct 18, 2016
'Ticking time bomb' pension deficit could mean academies cutting staff, experts warn
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Oct 17, 2016
Academy pension review will look at funding gap
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Oct 17, 2016
Former Durand Academy head 'tempted to give knighthood back' over decision to end funding
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Oct 16, 2016
Virtual lessons no ‘panacea’, says trust’s technology director
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Oct 16, 2016
Sixth-form colleges move to start academy trusts
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Oct 15, 2016
Academics petition education secretary over 48-hour research publication rule
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Oct 14, 2016
Watch for hidden costs when rebrokering, trust leaders warn
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Oct 14, 2016
Chief of trust under investigation attacks EFA
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Oct 14, 2016
Harris and Oasis academy chains owe government millions in pledged funding
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Oct 13, 2016
Durand: threatened academy trust advertises for new executive headteacher
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Oct 12, 2016
MPs' inquiry into multi-academy trusts: what we learned from the regional schools commissioners
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Oct 12, 2016
Durand claims it is victim of a campaign of 'half truths and inaccuracies'
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Oct 12, 2016
Regional Schools Commissioners grilled by MPs: 5 things we learned
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Oct 12, 2016
Durand: We will fight any slur on Sir Greg Martin’s good name
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Oct 12, 2016
Funding axed for academy school chain after headmaster made £161,000 from private leisure club on the premises and dating website featuring lingerie-clad 'Saffron'
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Oct 12, 2016
Failing academies 'not being taken over fast enough'
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Oct 12, 2016
South London state school to be stripped of management
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Oct 11, 2016
Regional Schools Commissioners questioned on MATs
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Oct 11, 2016
Durand: controversial academy trust to have funding agreement terminated
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Oct 11, 2016
Durand Academy Trust funding to be terminated
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Oct 11, 2016
Controversial Academy Trust to close after funding withdrawn
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Oct 11, 2016
Academy school stripped of funding over 'serious concerns' about financial management
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Oct 11, 2016
Funding for academy trust axed
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Oct 11, 2016
England's academy trusts 'run up debts of £25m'
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Oct 9, 2016
Academy boss on his doubts about creating new grammar schools
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Sep 30, 2016
Bradford Kings Science academy staff jailed for fraud
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Sep 30, 2016
Academy boss says grammar plans may leave children behind
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Bradford free school founder jailed for defrauding government
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