New Schools Network loses DfE free schools support contract
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Ex-Tory MP claims government threatened free school project
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DfE launches £1.5m free school support contract tender
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  • Jan 7, 2022
Plan for crumbling schools to be rebuilt under flats
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  • Sep 27, 2021
Guide for newly opened academies, academy trusts and free schools
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  • Sep 1, 2021
Unity Howard to leave influential free schools charity
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  • Jul 1, 2021
‘Phoenix’ free schools should replace ‘stubborn’ underperformers, says report
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  • Jun 25, 2021
New report: 10 years of free schools
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  • Feb 23, 2021
New Schools Network: DfE-funded free school charity adds £250K to pay bill
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  • Feb 23, 2021
Free school teachers 'achieve better GCSE results'
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  • Feb 23, 2021
Michael Gove's free schools at 10: the most successful policy since the war – or a costly mistake?
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  • Feb 9, 2021
DfE names 21 free schools approved in wave 14
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  • Feb 5, 2021
Former Cameron adviser’s free school rapped over 'improper' appointment of principal’s associates
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  • Dec 21, 2020
Three special free schools announced for North East
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  • Jul 31, 2020
The 37 special and AP free schools approved by the DfE revealed
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  • Jul 20, 2020
Thousands of places created in new special free schools
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  • Jul 19, 2020
Marcus Rashford reacts to Tory U-turn on free school meals for kids over summer
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  • Jun 16, 2020
A generation of children are relying on Boris Johnson to stop them from going hungry
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  • Jun 16, 2020
Free schools can follow Nightingale lead
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  • Jun 6, 2020
Collapsed free school’s lack of records ‘hampered’ child abuse probe
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  • May 22, 2020
‘It’s scandalous’: when free schools shut for want of a permanent home
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  • Feb 18, 2020
Free school got DfE go-ahead despite 1600 spare places
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  • Feb 11, 2020
DfE property firm’s boss got £30k bonus, despite missed value-for-money target
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  • Feb 11, 2020
First primary state boarding school set to open
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  • Feb 9, 2020
Project-based secondary among new free school bids
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  • Feb 4, 2020
Five free schools cost more than £30m, new figures show
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  • Feb 4, 2020
New Catholic school challenged over ‘bias’
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  • Jan 29, 2020
Free schools planned to tackle North-South divide
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  • Jan 26, 2020
Free school paid £900 for chair's stay in swanky Chicago hotel
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  • Jan 24, 2020
Call for fraud office to probe failed free schools
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  • Jan 24, 2020
NEU joins calls for probe into collapsed free schools at centre of financial scandals
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  • Jan 24, 2020
Free school rapped for off-rolling after ‘encouraging parents to home-educate children’
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  • Jan 22, 2020
Off-rolling: Free school 'pushed home education'
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  • Jan 22, 2020
Free school fire escape door at centre of tax evasion allegations
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  • Jan 17, 2020
Williamson: National free schools 'revolution' needed
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  • Jan 14, 2020
Williamson wants free school 'revolution' rolled-out across England
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  • Jan 14, 2020
Bring free-schools approach into FE, says NSN director
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  • Jan 13, 2020
Union warns over 'failure and waste' of free schools policy
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  • Dec 9, 2019
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  • Dec 8, 2019
NEU brands free schools a 'failure' as spend on closed projects rises to £186m
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  • Dec 8, 2019
Hundreds of pupils left stranded as more free schools close
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  • Dec 8, 2019
Free school that flew staff to Ibiza for a meeting being investigated for financial mismanagement
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  • Nov 12, 2019
School trustees flew to Ibiza for board meeting
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  • Nov 12, 2019
Free schools: The debate continues
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  • Nov 6, 2019
‘Absolutely devastated’: Free school stuck in temporary premises closed by DfE
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  • Nov 1, 2019
Free school rapped over board meeting in Ibiza
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  • Nov 1, 2019
Rebrokered free schools won't keep Steiner ethos, says new trust
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  • Oct 22, 2019
Free schools fail to reach the 'left-behind' areas
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  • Oct 18, 2019
Free schools and other schools must work together
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  • Oct 17, 2019
10 target areas for new parent free schools
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  • Oct 17, 2019
A levels: Free schools are top state performers
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Free schools: Five key findings from today's EPI report
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Free schools 'aren't helping poor-performing areas'
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Education Policy Institute on free schools
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Flagship Tory free schools policy failing to help students in areas that need it most, report says
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Free schools in England: 2019 report
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  • Oct 17, 2019
4 interesting findings from the EPI’s free schools analysis
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Free schools ‘failing to reach most disadvantaged areas’
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  • Oct 17, 2019
New free schools cannot neglect left-behind areas
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  • Oct 17, 2019
Free schools programme 'underserves' educationally disadvantaged pupils
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  • Oct 16, 2019
Rugby Free Secondary School faces closure after three years
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  • Oct 11, 2019
38 free schools lack permanent home after three years
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  • Oct 9, 2019
Free schools have a ‘branding problem’ says NSN director
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  • Sep 29, 2019
Let’s galvanise education by pledging to open 100 free schools per year
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  • Sep 29, 2019
Free school champions admit 4 key problems
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  • Sep 29, 2019
I want free schools to help other schools
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  • Sep 27, 2019
Free schools leading the way with top primary school results
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  • Sep 26, 2019
Free school pupils score higher in phonics check
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  • Sep 26, 2019
Dear Gavin Williamson, outsourcing excluded pupils to new free schools won’t help | Michael Rosen
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  • Sep 24, 2019
17 new free schools opened with no sports facilities
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  • Sep 23, 2019
Investigation: The free schools left homeless for years
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  • Sep 20, 2019
New free school bids round leaves AP out in the cold
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  • Sep 13, 2019
Student visa U-turn as Theresa May’s harsh immigration legacy dismantled
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  • Sep 11, 2019
Boris Johnson visits school to launch Government education drive (video)
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  • Sep 10, 2019
Johnson goes back to school as he pledges thousands of new free school places
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  • Sep 10, 2019
Special schools focus for next round of 'free' school bids
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  • Sep 10, 2019
Boris Johnson vows to create thousands more school places in bid to 'drive up standards'
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  • Sep 10, 2019
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  • Sep 10, 2019
PM pledges thousands more good school places
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Boris Johnson gives the go-ahead for 30 new free schools, creating more than 20,000 new places
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Johnson pledges thousands of new free school places
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Boris Johnson's drive to set up more free schools
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Johnson re-announces latest free schools application round
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  • Sep 9, 2019
DfE opens bids for next wave of free schools
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Boris Johnson on free schools
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  • Sep 9, 2019
Gavin Williamson’s AP free schools promise won’t work unless…
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  • Sep 6, 2019
Free schools should focus on troublemakers, says Gavin Williamson
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  • Sep 6, 2019
A society that writes children off is not solving anything | Gavin Williamson
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  • Sep 6, 2019
Free schools are the shining inspiration in our Dickensian education system
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  • Sep 1, 2019
The Conservatives must capitalise on free schools' remarkable success and make school choice a reality for all
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  • Aug 13, 2019
Tory call to let investors make money from free schools
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  • Aug 13, 2019
Free schools programme 'must change to survive'
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  • Aug 13, 2019
'Vanity project': debts pile up for English free schools scheme
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Gove says Toby Young wrong on free schools
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Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
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  • Jul 2, 2019
'Open more free schools in disadvantaged areas', charity urges
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  • Jul 2, 2019
7 ways to reinvigorate the free schools policy
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  • Jul 2, 2019
Johnson promises more schools funding from 'day 1'
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  • Jun 30, 2019
I started a free school: the new PM should ensure every town has one | Suella Braverman
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  • Jun 26, 2019
No need for school innovation now ‘we know what works’
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  • Jun 25, 2019
Luke Tryl interview: I'd like Uber to give us a lesson in success
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  • Jun 22, 2019
Free school programme needs rebooting, says Gibb
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  • Jun 21, 2019
Prestigious free school failed over staff safeguarding
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  • Jun 19, 2019
Gove: Give premier league clubs ‘responsibility’ to support free schools
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  • Jun 18, 2019
New free schools
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  • Jun 14, 2019
Thousands of new school places in underperforming areas
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  • Jun 14, 2019
‘Strictest school’ gets green light for new secondary
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  • Jun 14, 2019
Britain’s strictest school to open second free school after government backing
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  • Jun 14, 2019
The 22 new free schools approved by DfE
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  • Jun 14, 2019
'Serious questions' over free school finance failings
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  • May 29, 2019
How will free schools fare under the new Ofsted framework?
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  • May 24, 2019
‘Welcome to the world of free schools’: report reveals chaotic inside story behind closed academy
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  • May 21, 2019
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  • May 13, 2019
Former free schools chair broke the law over £500k payments to own company, report finds
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  • May 9, 2019
Investigation report: Manchester Creative Studio and Collective Spirit Free School
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  • May 9, 2019
The state of unregulated alternative provision is shameful
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  • Apr 12, 2019
Meet the ex-Tory adviser who wants Labour to love free schools
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  • Mar 22, 2019
DfE is paying 'excessive' free-school rent to ex Tory chief
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Thousands of places created in new special free schools
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Hinds announces SEND free schools
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  • Mar 11, 2019
39 new special free schools to open in England
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Dozens of new schools to be built for special educational needs and excluded pupils
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Thousands of school places to be created for pupils with special needs
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Government to build 37 new schools for troubled children to help tackle knife crime crisis
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  • Mar 11, 2019
Revealed: The 39 areas set to get new special and AP free schools
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  • Mar 11, 2019
The unanswered questions about a free school scandal
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  • Mar 8, 2019
DfE failed to ensure police investigated free school fraud
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  • Mar 8, 2019
National Offer Day shows us we need more free schools
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  • Mar 1, 2019
Empty free school sites will be rented to property guardians
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  • Feb 18, 2019
Free schools - launch of new application criteria
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  • Feb 6, 2019
Damian Hinds announces drive to create more good school places
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  • Jan 31, 2019
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Cost to taxpayer of free schools that never opened
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Next free-school wave to target 'underperforming areas'
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Social and emotional needs focus for new SEND schools
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  • Jan 27, 2019
Education Secretary calls on more schools to become an academy
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  • Jan 23, 2019
The proportion of pupils in academies and free schools, in England, in October 2018
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  • Jan 23, 2019
These Steiner ‘failures’ are really a failure of the free school agenda | Zoe Williams
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  • Jan 18, 2019
Lords debates contribution of free schools
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  • Jan 11, 2019
New free schools to benefit children with additional needs
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Some free schools were always ‘bound to fail’, admits former minister
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  • Jan 10, 2019
12:00 p.m. - Members of the Lords will debate the contribution made by free schools to improving educational standards
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  • Jan 10, 2019
Lords debates contribution of free schools
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  • Jan 9, 2019
Singer Charlotte Church says she will open her own school
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  • Dec 30, 2018
Free schools: application information for wave 13
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Fact check: How many free schools have actually closed?
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  • Dec 15, 2018
The free school facing funding axe
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  • Dec 9, 2018
Failing Steiner school to be moved to new trust
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  • Dec 6, 2018
‘Inadequate’ Steiner free school faces rebrokerage over pupil safety
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  • Dec 6, 2018
Sikh school claims DfE gives it ‘little choice’ in its future
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  • Nov 11, 2018
The free school movement is a broad church
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  • Nov 8, 2018
Education Secretary urges Labour MPs to rebel against Corbyn's plans to scrap free schools
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  • Nov 8, 2018
Plan for new Michaela Community free school revealed
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  • Nov 7, 2018
Firm behind first for-profit free school is still losing money
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  • Nov 4, 2018
Ignore the critics, free schools drive up standards
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  • Nov 2, 2018
DfE to shell out £10m for 200 ‘external experts’
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  • Nov 2, 2018
Approved free school application forms: wave 11
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  • Nov 1, 2018
Approved free school application forms: wave 12
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  • Nov 1, 2018
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  • Nov 1, 2018
Free school slammed by Ofsted after refusing to enter any students for GCSEs
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  • Oct 29, 2018
School goes car-free and halves pupil intake in bid to secure permanent Hampstead site
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  • Oct 23, 2018
Newly opened schools don’t tend to have particularly great exam results
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Steiner free school closure threat over safeguarding concerns
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  • Oct 16, 2018
Did free schools really get the best progress scores?
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  • Oct 16, 2018
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  • Oct 16, 2018
School league tables 2018: Free schools soar, and 6 more key findings
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  • Oct 16, 2018
DfE wastes £2.3m on UTCs and studio schools that never opened
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  • Oct 12, 2018
Minister’s £340k free schools flop revealed
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  • Oct 12, 2018
Hinds: Labour plan to end academies is ‘control freakery’
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  • Oct 11, 2018
‘Leave our kids alone,’ Hinds to tell Labour in speech
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  • Oct 11, 2018
Technical colleges accused of failure
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  • Oct 11, 2018
Free schools: how to apply
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  • Oct 1, 2018
NEU comment on Angela Rayner speech
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  • Sep 25, 2018
Labour plans to end academies and free schools
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  • Sep 25, 2018
Damian Hinds: Pupils would pay the price for Labour's academy plans
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  • Sep 25, 2018
Angela Rayner’s academies plan is sound policy, but likely won’t satisfy the grassroots
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  • Sep 24, 2018
'You want to turn back the clock' Labour plots to stop Tory educations plans
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  • Sep 24, 2018
Labour conference: What do the party's education reforms mean for schools?
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Labour conference: No new free schools or academies, Angela Rayner pledges
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Labour will end academy and free schools programmes, Angela Rayner says
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Angela Rayner: No new academies or free schools under a Labour government
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Labour will SCRAP free schools and end new academies
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Labour conference: No new academies, Angela Rayner to pledge
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  • Sep 23, 2018
Labour vows to rein in academies and scrap free schools
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  • Sep 23, 2018
Labour pledges end to academisation
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  • Sep 23, 2018
DfE allowed trust to take on new schools despite serious financial problems
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  • Sep 18, 2018
Labour MP joins millionaire Tory donor to open new free school
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  • Sep 14, 2018
NEU comment on announcement of 53 new free schools
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Mark Lehain: opening a free school is tough – but so worth it
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  • Sep 4, 2018
New free schools to open across England
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Saracens High among 53 new free schools opening
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  • Sep 4, 2018
Hinds heralds opening of 54 new free schools
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  • Sep 4, 2018
The 20 councils eligible to share a new £50m free school funding pot
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Pioneering free school in London to be taken over by academy trust
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Free schools: open schools and successful applications
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  • Aug 14, 2018
Apply to open a special or alternative provision free school
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  • Aug 13, 2018
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  • Aug 13, 2018
Melissa Benn: our schools are broken. Only radical action will fix them
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  • Aug 9, 2018
What are free schools – and have they been successful?
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  • Jul 25, 2018
Why spend £840k renovating a school and then close it?
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  • Jul 24, 2018
DfE spent £115m on doomed free schools, UTCs and studio schools
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  • Jul 19, 2018
How to set up a free school in nine steps
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  • Jul 19, 2018
Free schools reproduce socio-economic inequalities, research shows
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Free schools ‘socially selective'
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  • Jul 12, 2018
Sixth-form rebrokered from troubled academy chain
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  • Jul 10, 2018
Let’s fix school structures, then we can turn to curriculum
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  • Jul 6, 2018
'Why the free school policy is failing'
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  • Jul 2, 2018
Free Schools: An ideological rather than an educational initiave
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  • Jun 29, 2018
'Why we need more great school leaders in the North'
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  • Jun 29, 2018
Next wave of free schools to target areas of greatest need
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  • Jun 26, 2018
England’s new provider unit likened to free school movement
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  • Jun 19, 2018
Flagship free school had 'predatory pupils' roaming grounds
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  • Jun 15, 2018
What are grammar schools, why are they controversial and what is the government’s £50m expansion plan about?
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  • Jun 12, 2018
Two Stoke studio schools near their end
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  • Jun 12, 2018
Bolton Wanderers Free School’s £380k deficit
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  • Jun 7, 2018
Fresh trouble for NCG as its flagship free school is forced to close
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  • Jun 7, 2018
£9m flagship free school to close just four years after opening
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  • Jun 6, 2018
Free school that left pupil behind on school trip to close
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  • Jun 6, 2018
Free school project hijacked by MATs as parent role diminishes
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  • Jun 6, 2018
A critical report on free schools actually shows their success
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  • Jun 1, 2018
Free for all? Free schools fail to deliver original purpose
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  • May 31, 2018
Confusion And Inefficiency On Free Schools Must Come To A Swift End
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  • May 31, 2018
Free schools fail to deliver original purpose
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  • May 31, 2018
Flagship free schools policy failing to deliver on promise of parent-led education, report finds
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Parents 'not involved' in new free schools
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Free schools not delivering on promise of innovation, study finds
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Only one in five free schools set up by parents, shows report
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Free schools have ‘failed to deliver change’
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  • May 31, 2018
Most free schools open in areas of need, and 4 other things we learned
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  • May 31, 2018
What’s the difference between grammar, private and state education and what is Theresa May’s free school expansion?
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  • May 29, 2018
Free school programme is being redirected
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Free schools boost for England's worst-performing areas
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  • May 29, 2018
8 per cent of free schools not inspected on time, and 5 other interesting findings from the NAO report on Ofsted
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  • May 24, 2018
‘Inadequate’ Gloucestershire free school to close
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A simple guide to the next wave of free school applications
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  • May 11, 2018
'Free schools have unleashed innovation. Fact'
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  • May 11, 2018
More free schools set for the North and Midlands
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  • May 11, 2018
Rapid decline in parent-led free schools
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  • May 5, 2018
The Tes Podcast: New school accountability regime, TAs and free schools
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  • May 4, 2018
'At our parent-led free school, we didn't enter any Year 11s for GCSEs – it was in their best interests'
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How the 'Big Society' dream of parent-led schools faded away
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Doomed free school handed £250k to help it close
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Free schools policy under fire as yet another closure announced
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'Inadequate' £4.2 million free school to close 16 months after Tory schools minister cut ribbon
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Governors at free school that entered no pupils for GCSEs claim Ofsted bullied them
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New school proposals
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What it's like to study at the strictest school in Britain
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Governors quit free school where no pupils did GCSEs
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New special free schools get go-ahead from DfE
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Toby Young resigns as director of free school trust he founded
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DfE announces 14 new special free schools
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Sponsors for 14 new special needs free schools revealed
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Mark Lehain made interim director at New Schools Network
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  • Mar 27, 2018
Head of 'knowledge-rich curriculum' campaign replaces Toby Young at New Schools Network
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Universities asked to open more post-16 maths free schools
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  • Mar 26, 2018
Toby Young quits New Schools Network and blames media pressure
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Toby Young quits a second government linked role
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Toby Young quits role as head of New Schools Network after sexism row
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Toby Young quits New Schools Network, citing media pressure
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Toby Young resigns from New Schools Network
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Toby Young resigns from New Schools Network
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Toby Young clings on to taxpayer-funded free schools role
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Written answer re whether ESFA is required to consult local communities on plans for a new free school
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Government to open new wave of alternative-provision free schools
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DfE to invite bids for wave of AP and special free schools
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Free school threatens legal action over closure plan
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New Schools Network must win two bids to maintain current role
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Written answer re when the DfE next plans to publish information on the capital costs of individual free schools
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No nonsense' schools that impose strict are raising standards among children
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Free school in planning dispute finds temporary site
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Funding threat to Toby Young’s free schools charity the New Schools Network
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Catholics pray for free schools miracle
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Future of academisation in doubt, spending watchdog warns
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Floreat Brentford Primary free school to close
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Vulnerable children left out of school for too long, warns admissions watchdog
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  • Feb 8, 2018
A tale of two sixth forms: inside the East End Eton at the heart of Britain’s education divide
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Damian Hinds: Schools have 'more money than ever before in the history of the country'
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  • Jan 29, 2018
Damian Hinds is ‘carefully considering’ lifting the faith-based admissions cap
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Free schools: do their outcomes justify the cost?
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  • Jan 26, 2018
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Revealed: The hidden cost of free schools
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  • Jan 26, 2018
Secondary tables show free school pupils thriving
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  • Jan 26, 2018
Free schools are now the best in the country - it's time for the Government to renew its commitment to deliver more of them
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  • Jan 25, 2018
League tables: Free schools have best Progress 8 scores
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DfE let two free schools rack up £2 million debts over pupil numbers
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  • Jan 18, 2018
At least a quarter of all free schools overestimated pupil numbers
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  • Jan 15, 2018
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Damian Hinds set to scrap cap on faith schools
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  • Jan 14, 2018
Knives out for disgraced Toby Young over role at free schools charity
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  • Jan 10, 2018
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  • Jan 9, 2018
Toby Young quits Office for Students to ‘get on’ with free schools work
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Troubled free school could go to wall without DfE financial rescue
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  • Jan 5, 2018
What are free schools, how many are there in the UK and what is Theresa May’s expansion plan?
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  • Jan 4, 2018
New free schools expected to halve with support scrapped in many areas
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  • Jan 3, 2018
Blackpool and Walsall ‘need’ new free schools the most
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Toby Young’s West London Free School names fourth permanent head in seven years
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  • Dec 29, 2017
Ex-grammar school principal becomes latest head of West London Free School
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  • Dec 28, 2017
Controversial free-school move gets government go-ahead
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  • Dec 21, 2017
Academy bosses appointed to powerful committees despite losing elections
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New free school wave in 2018 to be targeted in ‘challenging areas’
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Social mobility: Action plan to target free schools at underperforming areas
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  • Dec 14, 2017
‘Unlocking talent, fulfilling potential’: Greening to launch social mobility action plan
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  • Dec 14, 2017
School's success not possible without young staff, says head
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  • Dec 10, 2017
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DfE to target free schools in bottom-performing third of country
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  • Dec 6, 2017
Detention, manners and respect: Pupils love learning at Michaela Community School
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  • Dec 5, 2017
‘Drill and kill’? English schools turn to scripted lessons to raise standards
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Inside the strictest school in Britain
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LocatED annual report and accounts: 5 things we learned
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Research round-up 24 November 2017
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Warrington academy reduces intake, blames nearby free school
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  • Nov 27, 2017
Revealed: The free school ‘advisors’ worth £100 million
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  • Nov 25, 2017
Government urged to 'restart UTC machine'
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Bishops launch petition to lift faith school cap
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  • Nov 23, 2017
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  • Nov 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 17 November 2017
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  • Nov 17, 2017
There's no right or wrong in the free schools debate
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The Tes podcast: Academy leaders earning more than the PM, the truth about free schools, and testing four-year-olds
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  • Nov 17, 2017
Free schools in England – a report by the EPI
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New schools should only open where there’s a shortage of places, says NAHT
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  • Nov 16, 2017
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The Chancellor should refuse new funding for schools
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  • Nov 16, 2017
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  • Nov 16, 2017
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Free Schools in England: What EPI’s report is actually telling us…
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  • Nov 16, 2017
Free schools are ‘not being targeted' where they are most needed
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Free schools ‘failing to help enough poor white pupils’
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  • Nov 16, 2017
Are secondary free schools really achieving what they’re supposed to?
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  • Nov 15, 2017
DfE under fire from MPs for delay in seeking to cut cost of free school sites
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  • Nov 15, 2017
DfE refuses to publish report about failed free school Collective Spirit
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  • Nov 7, 2017
First free school run by for-profit company rated 'good'
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  • Nov 6, 2017
First for-profit free school rated good by Ofsted
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  • Nov 6, 2017
DfE spent millions on free-school property company before it officially existed
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  • Oct 30, 2017
Need to know: Five key trends in secondary school admissions
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New school proposals
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  • Oct 16, 2017
Provisional KS4 data 2017: How are free schools faring?
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  • Oct 12, 2017
New school proposals
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  • Oct 10, 2017
Labour and Conservative conferences focus on need to build an educated, skilled workforce
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  • Oct 10, 2017
Headteacher board elections: What you need to know
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UK's biggest free school bans mixed ability teaching
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  • Sep 30, 2017
Free schools outperform state schools and academies in SATs
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  • Sep 29, 2017
New minister holds dual roles at academy trust despite DfE guidance
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  • Sep 28, 2017
Theodore Agnew confirmed as new minister at the Department for Education
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  • Sep 28, 2017
Back to school for thousands of pupils as new free schools open
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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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  • Sep 18, 2017
LocatEd announces first new free school
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  • Sep 18, 2017
East End Eton pupils to train as doctors, dentists or vets
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  • Sep 17, 2017
Two-thirds of schools have no vote in elections that could determine their future
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  • Sep 15, 2017
Revealed: The £16m cost of transferring academies to new sponsors
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  • Sep 14, 2017
New school proposals
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  • Sep 13, 2017
DfE to monitor partnerships between state schools and independents
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Councils seek more free schools to meet rising SEND demand in London
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Free schools: open schools and successful applications
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National Education Union comment on increase in new free schools
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Back to school for thousands of pupils as new free schools open
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Long read: The million-dollar teacher gives London pupils a taste of open waters
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  • Sep 6, 2017
Four out of five local authorities now have at least one free school open
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Top universities aren't interested in sponsoring academies, research finds
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Secondary school places crisis
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Councils want to force free schools to expand
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  • Sep 1, 2017
DfE's secret plan to share free school 'rewards' with private developers
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Half of councils 'unable to meet school place demand' within five years
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'Scandal' of plan to 'waste' £75m on temporary free school sites
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  • Sep 1, 2017
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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Don’t let religious apartheid infect our faith schools
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  • Sep 1, 2017
School places: Nearly half of councils don't have enough secondary school spaces
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'We need transparency,' say heads campaigning to scrutinise academies system
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GCSEs 2017: Free schools beat national average
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  • Aug 25, 2017
New school proposals
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  • Aug 9, 2017
Just six people stand for election to headteacher board in North of England
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Toby Young’s flagship academy trust ditches ‘free school’ from its name
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Free school that omits arts and humanities rated ‘inadequate’
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Applications open to create 1,600 new special free school places
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  • Jul 28, 2017
Government must act on class sizes, says NAHT
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  • Jul 27, 2017
Class sizes rise as schools face real-terms cuts
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  • Jul 27, 2017
Daily roundup 27 July: Sugar tax, special measures, and padded bras
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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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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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Free school fails to enter any year 11 pupils for GCSEs because they are 'not mature enough'
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Bids open to create 19 new free schools for children with SEND
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  • Jul 27, 2017
Councils open special free schools applications, as more pupils go private
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School bars underachieving year group from taking GCSEs
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  • Jul 27, 2017
Devon free school rated inadequate by Ofsted in all areas
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  • Jul 26, 2017
Free school that entered no Year 11 pupils for GCSEs is put in special measures
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Intolerant religion mustn’t dictate England’s education policy
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Sir David Carter: Ten things that the best multi-academy trusts do
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  • Jul 24, 2017
Fraud, asbestos and a spike in complaints revealed by Education Funding Agency accounts
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  • Jul 19, 2017
Behind the £1.3bn school funding headlines: Tes answers your questions about THAT announcement
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  • Jul 18, 2017
DfE to raid existing budgets for £1.3bn additional schools cash
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Extra £1.3bn for schools no long-term solution to funding crisis, say teachers
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  • Jul 18, 2017
IFS: Greening's funding pledge amounts to 'real-terms cut over four years'
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Greening announces an extra £2.6bn for schools, funded by budget `efficiencies´
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  • Jul 18, 2017
School budget boost 'not new money' (video)
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Free schools lose out as Greening raids the budget
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  • Jul 18, 2017
Extra cash in school budgets in funding shake-up
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Magic U-turn allows Justine Greening to splash cash on schools | John Crace
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Schools will gain from funding shake-up, says Greening (video)
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Greening announces extra £1.3bn funding for core schools budget
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Schools to get an extra £1.3billion from the government
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  • Jul 17, 2017
£1.3bn extra funding is ‘just a sticking plaster’, MPs warn
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  • Jul 17, 2017
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Government 'could scale back free school plans' to boost education budget
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Tories quietly confirm they've shelved Theresa May's flagship plan for a wave of grammar schools
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  • May 25, 2017
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Theresa May raids free school dinners to feed grammar and free school plans - and buy off Tory revolt
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Election 2017: Conservatives will use university tuition fees to plug free schools funding gap
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Liberal Democrats would boost education funding by £7bn, says Tim Farron
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Labour unveils plans for national education service
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General election 2017: Labour and Lib Dems pledge school cash
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Liberal Democrats pledge £7bn education funding boost
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A third of schools in England are underfunded by more than £1m
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Election disrupts free school funding agreements
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Children crammed into `super-sized´ school classes like sardines, says Corbyn
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Labour focuses on pupils 'crammed into classrooms like sardines'
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Announcement of a General Election
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Letters: close the grammar, free and faith schools
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Tens of millions wasted on free schools that closed or never opened amid 'unprecedented' funding crisis
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Justine Greening: education at the heart of our plan for Britain
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New wave of free schools approved by the Government
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Daily roundup 12 April: Free schools, honour-based abuse, and diets
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More than 130 new free schools to create more good places
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Next wave of English free schools approved
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New wave of free schools planned despite secondary staff cuts
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Approval granted for 131 more free schools
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Grammar school among sponsors for 111 new free schools
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Tories approve 130 'enormously expensive' free schools despite existing schools facing funding crisis
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Ministers spend five times the going rate on free school sites
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Free school headteacher joins Ofqual's board
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Government ‘propping up’ free schools with loans
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Department for Education launches property group
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Government-owned property company launched to buy land for 500 new free schools labelled 'obscene waste of money'
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New DfE property company will 'operate at pace' to deliver 500 new free schools
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Government launches company to create more free schools
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  • Mar 27, 2017
Bolton Wanderers charge a failing school almost £600,000 for two years' rent and bills at the Macron Stadium
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Bolton Wanderers Free School paid £600k in rent and bills to football club
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Everton Football Club's free school for troubled kids
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Crossparty group of MPs unites to oppose May's grammar school plans
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Teach First head criticises 'depressing' grammars and says free schools don't work outside London
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Ofsted rates dozens of new schools 'outstanding' without exam results
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Theresa May’s grammar schools project must not come at a cost to other schools, industry leaders warn
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Budget 'leaves thousands of grammar school places unfunded'
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Spring Budget: ‘A dereliction of duty’
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Free school funding will create fraction of places pledged in budget, says Labour
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Theresa May embroiled in fresh Budget controversy over unfunded grammar school places
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Pupils 'hosed down' for asbestos and four other key points on school buildings heard by MPs today
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Government went ‘hell for leather’ on free schools, admits DfE top boss
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'Too much paid' to build free schools
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Flat Cash Ed hell
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  • Mar 12, 2017
Tories slash education spending while giving corporates and millionaires £70bn tax breaks
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  • Mar 12, 2017
5,000 schools face a 10-year cash freeze - as some warn they may have to charge parents to make up shortfall
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  • Mar 11, 2017
Rayner: Labour has ‘will and vision’ to improve education
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Ofsted chief cool on grammars as Justine Greening heckled by headteachers
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 10 March 2017
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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
Football club’s free school to close with £500,000 debt
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Pension row delays Bright Tribe free school takeover
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Government sets up £1billion fund for controversial free schools - but rest are forced into cuts
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Heads 'cut exam courses amid funding squeeze'
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Class sizes rising and SEND support cut due to funding crisis
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  • Mar 10, 2017
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Council education boss appointed new RSC for East Midlands and Humber
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Timpson announces £215m to improve school SEND facilities
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Richard Morrison: the Hallé Orchestra’s plan for a free school in Stoke is the way forward
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Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium: guide for schools
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Sex education to be made compulsory in secondary schools
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Give councils power to set up academy trusts, MPs recommend
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Kathy Kirkham resigns as chief executive of Bright Tribe
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School building repairs 'to cost £6.7bn', report estimates
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Free schools are costing billions whilst existing schools fall into disrepair, Whitehall watchdog warns 
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Free schools ‘should be curbed’ as spending soars to £1bn over budget
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Billions needed to restore school buildings to 'satisfactory' condition, warns watchdog
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School spending on supply teacher agencies jumps by a fifth in three years
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Troubled free school 'failed to maintain adequate accounting records'
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More women will become infertile if sex education is not taught in schools, town hall chief says
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Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to £35m new site
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Auditor questions financial future of scandal-hit Perry Beeches Academy Trust
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Number 10 appoints former teacher as head of education
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Progress 8: five things you need to know about today's league tables
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Southwark free school in London to close after attracting only 60 pupils
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Religious studies allocation scuppers plans for Jewish free school
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Government writes off £800,000 of free school funding
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Marine Le Pen: No free school for illegal migrants in France
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Autumn Statement 2016: What could it mean for education & young people’s mental health?
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National schools commissioner addresses college leaders
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Analysis: schools white paper plans shelved
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Toby Young to take over as head of New Schools Network
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Free school set up by Bolton Wanderers judged 'inadequate'
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