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News tagged Academy conversions
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DfE ‘pauses’ diocese academy drive after legal challenge
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Academy conversions
Legal action
Feb 15, 2022
It’s not for us to question Catholic school academy conversions
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Academy conversions
Faith schools
Feb 7, 2022
Fewer than 1 in 100 schools affected by ‘levelling-up’ academies plan
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Levelling up
Academy conversions
MATs
Inadequate
Underperforming schools
Feb 4, 2022
Diocese academy conversions get go-ahead without governor approval
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Academy conversions
Church schools
Jan 15, 2022
Raid on school budgets next year as £41m council grants axed
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School improvement
School finances
Academy conversions
Jan 11, 2022
Academy conversions down to one a month
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Jan 9, 2022
Council agree new plans after academy u-turn
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Academisation
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MATs
Academy trusts
Nov 10, 2021
How do you solve a problem like academies?
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Academy trusts
Academy conversions
Oct 14, 2021
Trusts and LA-maintained schools: Would a formal trust partnership work for you?
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Academy trusts
Oct 12, 2021
Zahawi won’t set ‘arbitrary deadline’ for academy ambition
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Oct 9, 2021
Academy proposals an unwelcome distraction
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Apr 30, 2021
Gavin Williamson: All schools in England ‘should become academies’
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Gavin Williamson
Academy trusts
Academy conversions
Apr 28, 2021
Gavin Williamson wants to turn more state schools into academies
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Gavin Williamson
Academy conversions
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Apr 28, 2021
Education Secretary speech to the Confederation of School Trusts
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Gavin Williamson
MATs
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Apr 28, 2021
All schools to be academies: What teachers need to know
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Academy conversions
Gavin Williamson
Academy trusts
Apr 28, 2021
Try before you buy: The key to unlocking post-Covid support
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Coronavirus
Academy trusts
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Apr 28, 2021
Speed read: Williamson’s 7 policies to revive the academies drive
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Gavin Williamson
Academy trusts
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Apr 28, 2021
‘Try before you buy’ academy offer – what you need to know
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Apr 28, 2021
Schools to get trial runs before joining academy trusts
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Apr 28, 2021
Academy conversion backlog of failed schools cut by 62%
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RSCs
Regional Schools Commissioners
Academy conversions
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Apr 13, 2021
Trust ‘ready and able’ to take over ‘orphan’ school in limbo for ten years
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Apr 13, 2021
High Court judge slams pricey legal rows as RSC’s academy conversion ruled unlawful
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Jun 30, 2020
Controversial academy conversion halted due to coronavirus outbreak
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Baroness Berridge
Academy conversions
May 2, 2020
Coronavirus: Put academy conversions on hold, says councils' body
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LGA
NAHT
Academy conversions
Apr 10, 2020
Council chiefs call for academisation halt
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LGA
Academy conversions
Apr 10, 2020
30 UTCs to be in MATs within a year
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UTCs
MATs
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Mar 16, 2020
Sixth form college academy converters: contracting and data
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Sixth forms
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Academy conversions
Feb 4, 2020
18-month academisation wait for 51 failed schools
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Academisation
Academy conversions
Nov 28, 2019
Council drops academy trust support despite turnaround – as conversion stalls
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MATs
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Jul 22, 2019
Tighten rules on parental consultation before academy conversion, DfE told
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Parents
Jul 12, 2019
Campaigning Essex parents win reprieve from academy takeover
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Jun 27, 2019
Trusts seeks legal advice after council claims parents are ‘fearful’ of ‘tough love’ approach
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Jun 27, 2019
Teachers to strike at Essex school facing conversion to academy
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Primary
Jun 12, 2019
Failing schools more likely to improve under LA control, new study claims
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May 23, 2019
Peacehaven academy plans axed after parent and staff campaign
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May 23, 2019
Protests by parents and children stop primary schools from becoming academies
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Primary
May 22, 2019
Academy option reopened for sixth-form colleges
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May 3, 2019
DfE set to reopen academisation option for sixth-form colleges
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May 3, 2019
Peacehaven parents stage day of action to save local schools
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May 1, 2019
Academy conversion: important dates
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Apr 15, 2019
53,000 pupils in limbo after rise in ‘zombie’ academy schools
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Apr 15, 2019
Tens of thousands of pupils at rudderless ‘zombie schools’
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Apr 15, 2019
Ministers have U-turned on 33 attempts to force schools to become academies
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Apr 5, 2019
Catholic sixth forms suffer ‘double discrimination’
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Catholic
Sixth forms
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Mar 5, 2019
William Torbitt Primary School
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Feb 22, 2019
Government urged to ‘rethink’ academy conversion approach after another U-turn
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School performance
Feb 22, 2019
Has the well of academy sponsors dried up?
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Academies
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Feb 22, 2019
DfE could lose ‘millions’ under faith academies plan
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Feb 3, 2019
Damian Hinds writes to NEU and CES: employment rights
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Damian Hinds
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Academy conversions
Jan 30, 2019
Education Secretary urges more faith schools to consider academy conversion
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Jan 30, 2019
As schools are forced to be academies, the will of the people means nothing | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Jan 30, 2019
Hinds calls for more faith schools to become academies
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Faith schools
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Jan 29, 2019
Education Secretary calls on more schools to become an academy
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Damian Hinds
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Jan 23, 2019
Damian Hinds calls on more schools to become academies
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Jan 23, 2019
Hinds calls for more schools to become academies
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Jan 23, 2019
Union urges Catholic school teachers to resist academy plans
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Dec 11, 2018
Protests at the deadline for sixth form colleges’ conversion to academies
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SFCA
Nov 16, 2018
Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner plans to axe academies outside council control
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Angela Rayner
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Sep 24, 2018
Labour pledges end to academisation
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Angela Rayner
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Academy conversions
Sep 23, 2018
Schools forced to shell out £3.8 million in council conversion fees
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Sep 21, 2018
Academy conversion: important dates
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Academy conversions
Jul 30, 2018
NEU comment on PAC report on converting schools to academies
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Jul 11, 2018
Government failing to learn from high-profile academy failures
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PAC
Jul 11, 2018
ASCL comment on PAC academy conversions report
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Jul 11, 2018
Five ways the DfE can make academies work
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Jul 11, 2018
Schools miss out in rush to set up academies, MPs find
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Jul 11, 2018
Government has not learnt from academy failures that damaged children’s education, MPs say
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Jul 11, 2018
Kids from villages are being left behind as the cost of turning schools into academies is too high, MPs warn
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Jul 11, 2018
Due diligence must be improved, and 4 other findings from MPs’ damning report on academies
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Jul 11, 2018
Rush to turn schools into academies risks shutting children out of local schools, Government report warns
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Jul 11, 2018
MPs’ stern warning over ‘incoherent’ system and costly, ‘risky’ academisation
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Jul 11, 2018
East London academy conversion plans scrapped after 19-day teacher strike
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May 8, 2018
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Academies
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Apr 26, 2018
Spending watchdog launches inquiry into academy conversions
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PAC
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DfE
Apr 17, 2018
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Academies
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Mar 15, 2018
Fewer schools applying to be academies
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Academy conversions
Mar 13, 2018
Just how good are academy schools? A new database makes it easier to tell
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Academies
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Mar 13, 2018
Schools ordered to become academies set to close because no one will sponsor them
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Mar 8, 2018
Research round-up 2 March 2018
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Mar 2, 2018
Academies: Shortage of trusts and sponsors among concerns highlighted by National Audit Office
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Feb 28, 2018
£745m spent on creating academies
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Feb 23, 2018
ASCL comment on NAO’s academisation report
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Feb 22, 2018
Academy conversions
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Feb 22, 2018
National Audit Office academies report: The key findings
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NAO
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Feb 22, 2018
DfE's plans to convert schools to academies stalled in many areas – report
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Feb 22, 2018
Future of academisation in doubt, spending watchdog warns
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Feb 22, 2018
£745 million spent on turning state schools into academies
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Feb 22, 2018
Failing schools turned into academies at a cost of £745m
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Feb 22, 2018
Strike goes ahead as school rejects Acas intervention
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Feb 12, 2018
Sixth form with ‘dodgy’ legal status joins City of London Academies Trust
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Jan 16, 2018
Kevin Courtney, NEU Joint General Secretary, to attend school strike opposing academy status
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Strikes
Academy conversions
Jan 15, 2018
Good news that Cambridge primary will not become an academy
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Primary schools
Academy conversions
Jan 12, 2018
Church academies: model documents
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Academies
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Dec 22, 2017
Academy conversion: important dates
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Dec 18, 2017
Number of maintained schools in deficit up 46%
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Dec 14, 2017
Accountability, growth mindset and women who are going to hell: 8 things we learnt from the Ofsted annual report
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Amanda Spielman
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Academy conversions
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Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted Annual Report: 65 inadequate schools still not converted after 17 months
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Dec 13, 2017
Academies' pre-conversion grades to be made public under Ofsted plans
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Nov 30, 2017
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Nov 29, 2017
Most non-academies 'likely to convert by 2022'
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Nov 20, 2017
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