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Academy trust accounting officer letters from EFA and ESFA
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Mar 5, 2018
Academy trust accounting officer letters from EFA and ESFA
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Dec 13, 2017
Founder of Academy Transformation Trust resigns as chief executive
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Nov 23, 2017
Inside the specially adapted 'sex den' study of Sawtry Village Academy head
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Oct 7, 2017
ESFA Post-16: intervention and accountability
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Sep 15, 2017
Durand appoints new directors following Sir Greg Martin's resignation
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Sep 13, 2017
All schools should make cash out of their land, says former 'superhead' in funding row
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Sep 9, 2017
DfE pledges more transparency for secretive academies system
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Sep 8, 2017
Academy secrets the DfE wanted to hide from you – part 1
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Sep 5, 2017
16 to 19 education: market entry
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Aug 23, 2017
Judge: Durand management may have taken ‘eye off the ball’ over EFA squabble
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Aug 14, 2017
Condition Improvement Fund: 2017 to 2018 outcome
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Aug 2, 2017
PE and sport premium for primary schools
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Jul 28, 2017
Durand blocked critical Ofsted report to ‘keep EFA at bay’, court told
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Jul 26, 2017
Ten things we learned from the SFA and EFA annual reports
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Jul 19, 2017
Overdue debts double, and 4 other interesting things from the EFA’s annual accounts
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Jul 19, 2017
Fraud, asbestos and a spike in complaints revealed by Education Funding Agency accounts
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Jul 19, 2017
Critical Lilac Sky trust finance warning kept under wraps for months
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Jun 30, 2017
Durand Academy Trust to have funding terminated in 12 months
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Jun 28, 2017
EFA Information Exchange
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Jun 21, 2017
Government urged to show it ‘has teeth’ as academy scandals stack up
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Jun 16, 2017
137 academy trusts miss EFA’s accounts deadline
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May 15, 2017
MPs condemn free schools policy as incoherent and wasteful
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Apr 26, 2017
EFA Information Exchange
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Apr 10, 2017
A UTC that outsourced teaching says government knew about deal
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Apr 7, 2017
Local authority school places scorecards 2016
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Apr 3, 2017
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Apr 3, 2017
Research round-up 2 April 2017
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Apr 3, 2017
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Mar 31, 2017
Energy Coast UTC handed financial notice to improve
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Mar 31, 2017
Policy Tracker – Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in March 2017
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Mar 31, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 31 March 2017
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Mar 31, 2017
School standards at risk from significant financial pressures
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Mar 29, 2017
'Ministers are not learning lessons from NHS cuts': Four education funding warnings issued by MPs today
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Mar 29, 2017
MPs: Government showing ‘collective delusion’ over funding cuts
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Mar 29, 2017
Sector response to the new Education and Skills Funding Agency
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Mar 28, 2017
SFA and EFA merge to become the Education and Skills Funding Agency
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Mar 28, 2017
Goodbye, Education Funding Agency. Hello, Education & Skills Funding Agency
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Mar 28, 2017
EFA and SFA to merge, Department for Education confirms
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Mar 28, 2017
SFA and EFA merger confirmed and Lauener retiring
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Mar 28, 2017
New agency to provide joined-up education and skills funding
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Mar 28, 2017
FE funding agencies to merge
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Mar 28, 2017
Greening announces merger of education and skills funding
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Mar 28, 2017
Creation of single funding agency is a good move
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Mar 28, 2017
ATT chief executive broke rules over chair sacking, EFA investigation finds
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Mar 24, 2017
Qualifications: eligible for public funding
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Mar 24, 2017
'Underfunded' Durand spends more than £200k on legal fees
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Mar 17, 2017
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Mar 17, 2017
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Mar 16, 2017
Early years national funding formula: allocations and guidance
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Mar 16, 2017
Pupils 'hosed down' for asbestos and four other key points on school buildings heard by MPs today
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Mar 13, 2017
'Too much paid' to build free schools
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Mar 13, 2017
Football club’s free school to close with £500,000 debt
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Mar 10, 2017
Embattled Durand Academy heading to Downing Street for 'explosive' documentary
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Mar 6, 2017
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: guide for schools
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Mar 2, 2017
College accounts direction
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Mar 2, 2017
Post-16 audit code of practice
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Mar 2, 2017
‘Far from clear’ if DfE can cope with academies expansion, warn MPs
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Feb 28, 2017
Asbestos in schools is a 'serious' problem, Government report finds
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Feb 24, 2017
Councils paid £100k to write to parents about UTCs
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Feb 23, 2017
Teachers at risk of asbestos exposure in one in five schools
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Feb 23, 2017
Kathy Kirkham resigns as chief executive of Bright Tribe
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Feb 23, 2017
Pupil premium: funding and accountability for schools
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Feb 22, 2017
Office for Students pre-appointment hearing: Committee questions Sir Michael Barber
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Feb 16, 2017
Auditor questions financial future of scandal-hit Perry Beeches Academy Trust
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Feb 14, 2017
£9m Greater Manchester college closes after three years due to lack of pupils
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Feb 7, 2017
Greater Manchester UTC is the latest university technical college to close
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Feb 7, 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
Revealed: The 23 trusts that broke rules over £4m related-party transactions
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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
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Feb 1, 2017
EFA paid £16m for £5m Hackney free school site
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Jan 30, 2017
Basildon Academies trust issued fourth government warning
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Jan 27, 2017
No council cash for new free schools in Manchester
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Jan 27, 2017
Debts of £4.5m threaten future of academy trust sponsored by grammar school
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Jan 25, 2017
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Jan 25, 2017
Public Accounts Committee on the sustainability of school funding
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Jan 25, 2017
Prompt payment data for DfE
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Jan 24, 2017
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The Institute for Apprenticeships is a shambles
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Jan 20, 2017
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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
Knowsley planning return of A-levels after shut down
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Jan 17, 2017
Flooded schools need millions to relocate
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Jan 14, 2017
Government writes off £800,000 of free school funding
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Jan 6, 2017
Early years national funding formula: allocations and guidance
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Jan 3, 2017
EFA announces no change to 16-18 funding rates
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Dec 21, 2016
DfE's accounts contain 'pervasive' errors, warns spending watchdog
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Dec 20, 2016
DfE told its accounts lack ‘truth and fairness’ for second year running
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School revenue funding settlement for 2017 to 2018
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Dec 20, 2016
Schools face cuts of £3bn, says watchdog
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Dec 14, 2016
NAO school finances report: Headteachers face £3 Billion in cuts, and 10 other key findings
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Dec 14, 2016
‘Incredibly unfair’ funding quirk riles colleges
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Dec 9, 2016
Daventry becomes sixth UTC to announce closure after recruitment problems
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Dec 8, 2016
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Dec 7, 2016
EFA funding falls by over 20% for three colleges
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Empty free schools owe government £11m
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Dec 2, 2016
Perry Beeches: second investigation reveals trust breached rules over Labour donation
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Dec 1, 2016
Half the levy will be paid by just 400 employers – but who are they?
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Nov 26, 2016
Official warnings for two South-West academy chains in serious difficulties
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Nov 25, 2016
Lauener reveals staffing levels for new Institute for Apprenticeships
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Nov 22, 2016
Academy trust finance warnings more than treble in a year
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Nov 16, 2016
Funding threshold will be extended, EFA director announces
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Nov 16, 2016
More colleges expected to run at an operating loss, EFA reveals
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Nov 16, 2016
'Tolerance' for GCSE English and maths resits funding to be extended
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Nov 16, 2016
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Nov 15, 2016
Sir Greg Martin: Durand will close if funding is withdrawn from trust
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Nov 11, 2016
Academies sector annual report and accounts
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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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Saddle your steed, Sir Greg Martin, overpaid superhead, and gallop out of our schools
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Nov 8, 2016
PE and sport premium funding allocations for 2016 to 2017
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Nov 7, 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 2, 2016
DfE publishes high needs funding operational guide for 2017 to 2018
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Nov 2, 2016
Peter Lauener outlines vision for Institute for Apprenticeships
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Nov 1, 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
A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings
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A third of academy trusts paid businesses linked to their staff, and 7 other school finance findings
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Oct 14, 2016
Durand claims it is victim of a campaign of 'half truths and inaccuracies'
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