DfE ‘pauses’ diocese academy drive after legal challenge
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  • Feb 15, 2022
It’s not for us to question Catholic school academy conversions
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  • 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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  • Jan 15, 2022
Raid on school budgets next year as £41m council grants axed
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  • 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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  • Nov 10, 2021
How do you solve a problem like academies?
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  • Oct 14, 2021
Trusts and LA-maintained schools: Would a formal trust partnership work for you?
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  • 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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Academy conversions
  • Apr 30, 2021
Gavin Williamson: All schools in England ‘should become academies’
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  • Apr 28, 2021
Gavin Williamson wants to turn more state schools into academies
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  • Apr 28, 2021
Education Secretary speech to the Confederation of School Trusts
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  • Apr 28, 2021
All schools to be academies: What teachers need to know
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  • Apr 28, 2021
Try before you buy: The key to unlocking post-Covid support
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  • Apr 28, 2021
Speed read: Williamson’s 7 policies to revive the academies drive
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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 Failing schools School sponsorship
  • 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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dfe Baroness Berridge Academy conversions
  • May 2, 2020
Coronavirus: Put academy conversions on hold, says councils' body
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  • 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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  • Mar 16, 2020
Sixth form college academy converters: contracting and data
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  • Feb 4, 2020
18-month academisation wait for 51 failed schools
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  • Nov 28, 2019
Council drops academy trust support despite turnaround – as conversion stalls
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  • Jul 22, 2019
Tighten rules on parental consultation before academy conversion, DfE told
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  • 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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  • 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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Protests Primary Local authority Academy conversions
  • May 23, 2019
Protests by parents and children stop primary schools from becoming academies
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  • 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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Academisation Sixth forms Area reviews Academy conversions
  • May 3, 2019
Peacehaven parents stage day of action to save local schools
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Strikes Protests Academy conversions
  • May 1, 2019
Academy conversion: important dates
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Academy conversions
  • 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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  • 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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  • Feb 22, 2019
Has the well of academy sponsors dried up?
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  • Feb 22, 2019
DfE could lose ‘millions’ under faith academies plan
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Capital funding Faith schools Academy conversions
  • Feb 3, 2019
Damian Hinds writes to NEU and CES: employment rights
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Education Secretary urges more faith schools to consider academy conversion
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Faith schools Academy conversions
  • 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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  • Jan 29, 2019
Education Secretary calls on more schools to become an academy
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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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Sixth forms Academy conversions Colleges SFCA
  • Nov 16, 2018
Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner plans to axe academies outside council control
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Angela Rayner Academies Academisation New schools Academy conversions
  • Sep 24, 2018
Labour pledges end to academisation
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Angela Rayner Academisation Policy Free schools Academy conversions
  • Sep 23, 2018
Schools forced to shell out £3.8 million in council conversion fees
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Academy conversions Fees Finances
  • 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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Academies Academy conversions PAC
  • Jul 11, 2018
Government failing to learn from high-profile academy failures
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  • Jul 11, 2018
ASCL comment on PAC academy conversions report
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Academies Academy conversions Finances Funding PAC
  • 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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Academy conversions Strikes Teachers Protests
  • May 8, 2018
Open academies and academy projects in development
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  • Apr 26, 2018
Spending watchdog launches inquiry into academy conversions
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Academy conversions PAC Funding DfE
  • Apr 17, 2018
Open academies and academy projects in development
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Academies Academy conversions
  • 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 School performance Academy conversions
  • Mar 13, 2018
Schools ordered to become academies set to close because no one will sponsor them
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Academy conversions School sponsorship School closures Church schools Ofsted ratings
  • Mar 8, 2018
Research round-up 2 March 2018
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Research Academy conversions Primary Secondary Special schools School travel Poverty Wellbeing Mental health
  • 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 Academy conversions
  • 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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Academy conversions Ofsted ratings School performance School sponsorship
  • 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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Academies MATs Sixth forms Academy conversions
  • 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 Church schools Academy conversions
  • Dec 22, 2017
Academy conversion: important dates
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Academy conversions
  • Dec 18, 2017
Number of maintained schools in deficit up 46%
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Maintained schools Finances Primary schools Secondary schools Funding Academy conversions
  • 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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Accountability Ofsted Amanda Spielman Primary Secondary Improvement Academy conversions MATs
  • Dec 13, 2017
Ofsted Annual Report: 65 inadequate schools still not converted after 17 months
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Ofsted Academies MATs School sponsorship Ofsted ratings School performance Academy conversions
  • Dec 13, 2017
Academies' pre-conversion grades to be made public under Ofsted plans
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Academies Academy conversions Ofsted Inspections Primary schools Secondary schools
  • 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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Academies DfE Academy conversions MATs
  • Nov 20, 2017