Biggest primary MAT threatened with funding termination for failing academy
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  • Apr 2, 2019
Top trust could lose primary academy if more schools fall to ‘inadequate’
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  • Apr 2, 2019
Teachers worry about academy chain growth, Ofsted study finds
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  • Apr 2, 2019
Ofsted suspends publishing MAT inspections during election purdah
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  • Apr 1, 2019
Edtech expert is ‘missing job’ in academy top teams, says Ark senior leader
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  • Mar 29, 2019
Academies ‘blackmail’ teachers to take worse pensions
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  • Mar 28, 2019
Women earn 50p for £1 made by men at some multi-academy trusts
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  • Mar 28, 2019
MATs should step into political 'vacuum', says ex-Ofsted chair
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  • Mar 28, 2019
Schools leader launches defence of academy trusts
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  • Mar 28, 2019
Letters to academy trusts about poor performance
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  • Mar 27, 2019
Councils wary of challenging ‘powerful’ academy CEOs over exclusions, warns Wilshaw
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  • Mar 27, 2019
For richer, for poorer – should MATs have a joint bank account?
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  • Mar 27, 2019
Pooling school budgets ‘wasn’t as painful as you might think’, says academy trust boss
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  • Mar 27, 2019
Departing school leader’s warning over ‘pernicious accountability system’
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  • Mar 25, 2019
ESFA introduces new arrangements for related party transactions
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Academy trusts turn to ‘grammar streams’ in selective areas
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Bradford academy trust in ‘unprecedented’ pay and conditions change
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  • Mar 22, 2019
MATs warned not to ditch national pay and conditions
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  • Mar 22, 2019
Outwood Grange won't say how much it spent on crisis managers
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  • Mar 22, 2019
David Moran steps down as E-ACT chief executive
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  • Mar 20, 2019
E-ACT chief executive David Moran to stand down
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  • Mar 20, 2019
Trust has 'contentious' bar bills queried by DfE
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Academies MATs Procurement DfE Finances Accounts
  • Mar 18, 2019
Trust rapped for £1.9k booze bill
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  • Mar 15, 2019
DfE 'minded' to rebroker school from Inspiration Trust
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Rebrokering Primary MATs Academies School sponsorship Ofsted ratings School performance
  • Mar 15, 2019
Baker U-turns by telling all UTCs they could survive by joining multi-academy trusts
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  • Mar 15, 2019
UTCs told to join MATs after Lord Baker U-turn
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  • Mar 15, 2019
The best and worst MATs for progress after GCSE
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  • Mar 14, 2019
Majority of MATs achieve ‘below average’ progress for 16 to 18-year-olds
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  • Mar 14, 2019
Deloitte ‘gagged’ by DfE over WCAT chain closure
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DfE School closures Academies MATs Finances
  • Mar 11, 2019
DfE gave academy trust £500k despite serious concerns about finances
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  • Mar 8, 2019
Hinds urges academies to listen to local communities
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  • Mar 7, 2019
Government warns of ‘significant increase’ in cyber crime against academy trusts
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  • Mar 6, 2019
Ofsted defends controversial 'good' verdict on off-rolling school
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Off-rolling Pupil exclusions Ofsted rating Academies MATs
  • Mar 5, 2019
AET recruits Harris leader to turnaround its London secondaries
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  • Mar 5, 2019
Academy trusts: themes arising from ESFA's assurance work
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  • Mar 4, 2019
'Financial issues' threatened 90 academy trusts, auditors warned
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Need to know: What is Labour's academies policy?
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  • Mar 4, 2019
How we're redesigning our MAT curriculum
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  • Mar 4, 2019
Should RSCs have a 'cooling off period' before taking new jobs?
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  • Mar 2, 2019
MAT CEO pay should be judged on value for money
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  • Mar 2, 2019
Academy trust financial management good practice guides
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  • Mar 1, 2019
Investigation: The highs (and occasional lows) of academy CEO pay
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  • Mar 1, 2019
Academy transfers: information for academy trusts
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Due diligence in academies and maintained schools
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Inspiration Trust battles Ofsted over special-measures judgement
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  • Feb 28, 2019
Ofsted publishes first academy trust ‘summary evaluation’
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  • Feb 27, 2019
Star Academies school threatened with funding termination
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Academies MATs Funding Termination warning School performance
  • Feb 22, 2019
Calls for Ofsted and Parliament to look at 'flattening the grass'
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  • Feb 22, 2019
'Flattening the grass' MATs must set record straight, says top Tory
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  • Feb 21, 2019
Should multi-academy trust CEO pay be regulated?
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  • Feb 19, 2019
Agnew cuts final formal tie with academy trust he founded
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  • Feb 18, 2019
More whistleblowers report fear and aggression at ‘flattening the grass’ academy chains
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  • Feb 18, 2019
Outwood gets DfE and Ofsted backing after 'flattening the grass'
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  • Feb 15, 2019
First non-faith school inspected at Star Academies Trust put in special measures
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  • Feb 15, 2019
Academy trust criticised for taking on debt-ridden schools
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  • Feb 15, 2019
DfE shells out £27m to prop up struggling academies
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  • Feb 15, 2019
Teaching at 'flattening the grass' school 'felt like being a prison warden’
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  • Feb 14, 2019
‘Flattening the grass’: what’s really going on at OGAT and Delta?
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  • Feb 14, 2019
DfE does not know how much academy land it has lost control of
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  • Feb 14, 2019
St Peter's Droitwich CE Academy primary school tells children to eat their lunch in silence
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  • Feb 13, 2019
Nearly a third of academy transfers down to government intervention over failures
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  • Feb 12, 2019
MPs demand answers from Outwood Grange about ‘flattening the grass’
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  • Feb 11, 2019
Outwood Grange uses crisis managers to explain ‘flattening the grass’ policy
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  • Feb 8, 2019
Ark English mastery programme and ‘glasses for classes’ scheme get EEF trials
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  • Feb 8, 2019
Trust hopes PGCE ‘franchise’ will boost Russell Group grad recruitment
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  • Feb 8, 2019
‘Systematic failure’ lifts academy trust’s deficit to £2.4m
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  • Feb 8, 2019
28 academy trusts ordered to justify CEO pay
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Schools Minister calls on academies to justify 'excessive' pay
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Lord Agnew letters to academy trusts about high pay
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Academy chains ordered to justify paying bosses more than £100k
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Academies ordered to justify salaries in excess of £100,000
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Holland Park school warned over head’s £260k salary as minister writes to 28 trusts
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Academies ordered to reduce ‘divisive’ six-figure pay deals
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  • Feb 5, 2019
Academy admissions
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  • Feb 4, 2019
Academy chain boss now earning £210,000 despite crackdown on high salaries
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  • Feb 4, 2019
Harris Federation plans to expand despite funding pressures
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  • Feb 1, 2019
Academy rapped over consultancy payments to chair of trustees
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  • Feb 1, 2019
Academy trust defends pay rise for CEO earning more than £210,000
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  • Feb 1, 2019
DfE threatens to reclaim £110k loan unless school joins a multi-academy trust
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  • Feb 1, 2019
Agnew calls for debate on whether MAT chairs should be paid
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Academies MATs Leaders Pay
  • Jan 31, 2019
Academy schools are struggling with deficits - report
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Astrea academy trust calls in forensic auditors
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Academies MATs Finances Accounts
  • Jan 31, 2019
Country’s largest primary MAT pools schools’ cash
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Accounts delayed as trust calls in forensic auditors
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Biggest MAT has only half reserves it needs for 'stability and sustainability'
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MATs Academies Finances Accounts
  • Jan 31, 2019
Funding gloom as academy trusts run out of ‘easy savings’
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Academies MATs Finances Deficit
  • Jan 31, 2019
Doomed WCAT chain finished year with £2m
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Academies MATs Finances Rebrokering
  • Jan 31, 2019
‘Internal politics’ stops MATs centralising academy cash
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  • Jan 31, 2019
Drop in pay for leaders of biggest academy trusts
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  • Jan 31, 2019
MPs urge DfE to make academy trusts more transparent and accountable to parents
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  • Jan 30, 2019
Ark Schools still in financial deficit
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  • Jan 29, 2019
No pay rise for highest-paid academy chief for the first time in six years
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  • Jan 29, 2019
The academy revolution has swept England. It has left casualties in its wake
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  • Jan 26, 2019
Bright Tribe emails reveal ‘upsetting’ treatment of campaigning parent
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  • Jan 26, 2019
Academy headteacher sees pay rise to £260,000 despite crackdown on excessive salaries
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  • Jan 25, 2019
Secondary MAT league tables 2018: A first look at year-on-year performance
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  • Jan 24, 2019
Key stage 4 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised)
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  • Jan 24, 2019
Standards continue to rise in England’s schools
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  • Jan 24, 2019
DfE ‘dependency culture’ warning over academy bailouts
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  • Jan 24, 2019
Academy failures ‘harm pupils’ education’
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  • Jan 24, 2019
GCSE results: Best and worst performing academy trusts named
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  • Jan 24, 2019
Academy trusts' GCSE scores below national average on Progress 8
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  • Jan 24, 2019
Academy chains perform below average for GCSE progress, new figures show
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  • Jan 24, 2019
School league tables: The best and worst-performing MATs, and other findings
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  • Jan 24, 2019
Countering the noise: Multi-academy trusts vs local authorities?
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Leading PRU to launch academy chain
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  • Jan 23, 2019
PAC report on academy failures and misuse of funding is a wake-up call to DfE
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  • Jan 23, 2019
MPs issue warning over academies governance
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  • Jan 23, 2019
ASCL response to PAC report on academy accounts
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  • Jan 23, 2019
DfE: School improvement has ‘arrested or reversed’ in some sponsored academies
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  • Jan 23, 2019
MPs: Academy failures damage children’s education
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  • Jan 23, 2019
£850K Durand payout a ‘shocking reward for failure’
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Education damaged by academy failures and misuse of funds
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  • Jan 23, 2019
The 9 things the DfE must do to improve academy accountability, according to MPs
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Academy failures and misuse of funding is a wake-up call to DfE
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Education of academy pupils harmed by trust failures, MPs warn
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Children’s education being ‘damaged’ by academy failures, MPs warn
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Academy failures have ‘damaged’ children’s education, warns cross-party committee of MPs
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Academy schools need better governance, says report
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Parents kept in the dark over wasted academy cash
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  • Jan 23, 2019
Durand Academy wrote off £1.6 million from failed boarding school project
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  • Jan 18, 2019
Ormiston Academies Trust got £1.1m government loan
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  • Jan 18, 2019
Six-figure settlement by academy trust angers union
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Unions Funding Academies MATs Legal action
  • Jan 18, 2019
Schools hit with warning letters after flouting Baker clause
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Academies MATs Baker clause Careers guidance
  • Jan 17, 2019
Trusts hit with warning letters after flouting Baker clause
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Leading academies ordered to promote apprenticeships
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  • Jan 17, 2019
Expanding Co-op academy chain names new chief
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Academies MATs Expansion
  • Jan 16, 2019
Hinds and Slater: 5 things we learned from their questioning by MPs today
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Damian Hinds MATs Funding SEND Pupil support Isolation
  • Jan 16, 2019
6 things we learned on accountability from Damian Hinds at the education select committee
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  • Jan 16, 2019
One in three academy trusts reviews pay after government warning
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  • Jan 14, 2019
Hinds to face education committee grilling over academy accountability and exclusions
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Damian Hinds Education Committee Accountability Pupil exclusions Academies MATs
  • Jan 11, 2019
Tory peer’s academy trust seeks unpaid workers
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  • Jan 11, 2019
Ofsted finally contacts local authorities over new inspection handbook
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Ofsted inspections MATs Academies
  • Jan 8, 2019
Are educational networks the new panacea for system reform? Here’s how to ensure a more thoughtful approach
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  • Jan 8, 2019
Ofsted under fire for sharing new inspection plans with MATs
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  • Jan 7, 2019
MAT scraps written reports for parents to cut workload
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  • Dec 24, 2018
Banned: MAT chief who bullied staff, misled trustees and used offensive language
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MATs Headteachers Teaching Regulation Agency Banned Bullying Disciplinary action Misconduct
  • Dec 24, 2018
Letters to academy trusts about poor performance
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  • Dec 21, 2018
Statement on Court of Appeal judgment: Durand Academy Trust -v- Ofsted
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Ofsted reports Academies MATs Legal action School performance
  • Dec 21, 2018
Academies financial notices to improve
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  • Dec 21, 2018
Ofsted wins appeal over quashed Durand inspection report
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Ofsted reports Academies MATs Legal action
  • Dec 21, 2018
The £700,000 Ofsted report
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  • Dec 21, 2018
The damning Ofsted report Durand tried to quash
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  • Dec 21, 2018
Key stage 2 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised)
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  • Dec 20, 2018
Two-thirds of academy chains perform below average for disadvantaged pupils
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  • Dec 20, 2018
8 ways research proves that MATs are transformational
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  • Dec 20, 2018
Study finds academy chains underperform for disadvantaged pupils
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  • Dec 20, 2018
NEU comment: Sutton Trust on Academy Chains
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  • Dec 20, 2018
7 ways academy trusts could give poorer pupils a better deal
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  • Dec 20, 2018
Two-thirds of academy chains 'below average for disadvantaged pupils'
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  • Dec 20, 2018
The 38 MATs 'below average' for poorer pupils
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  • Dec 20, 2018
Multi-Academy Trusts implement different teaching approaches depending on how well they perform
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  • Dec 18, 2018
Academies financial notices to improve
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Academies MATs Improvement
  • Dec 14, 2018
Policy Eye - highlights of the week ending 14 December
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  • Dec 14, 2018
‘Focus on sharing resources’, academy trusts told
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  • Dec 14, 2018
Multi-academy trusts: summary evaluations
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  • Dec 13, 2018
MAT summary evaluations: Damian Hinds writes to Ofsted
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Letters to academy trusts about poor performance
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Key stage 2 and multi-academy trust performance, 2018 (revised)
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Most MATs 'won't be assessed by Ofsted'
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Low-performing MATs most likely to tell teachers how to teach
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Reach 2 pledges ‘significant changes’ at Sprites academy after DfE threatens funding termination
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Academies MATs School performance Funding Termination warning
  • Dec 13, 2018
Hinds urges Ofsted to ensure new MAT evaluations aren’t ‘undue burdens’
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  • Dec 13, 2018
Hinds sets limits for Ofsted MAT inspections
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Damian Hinds Ofsted inspections Academies MATs
  • Dec 13, 2018
‘Surprisingly few’ MATs have strategy to cut teacher workload
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  • Dec 13, 2018
The 50 academy trusts that cut chief executive pay
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  • Dec 12, 2018
Legal challenge to Outwood Grange over use of 'consequences room'
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Outwood Grange Academies Trust faces legal challenge over isolation booths
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  • Dec 11, 2018
Pupil brings legal action against school's isolation units
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  • Dec 11, 2018
'Inadequate' Steiner school to be taken over by academy chain
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  • Dec 6, 2018
Failing Steiner school to be moved to new trust
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Ofsted Inadequate MATs Termination warning Steiner schools Free schools Safeguarding Governance SEND Funding
  • Dec 6, 2018
Academy trusts are becoming more risk-averse, says former schools commissioner
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  • Dec 5, 2018
Letters to academy trusts about poor performance
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  • Dec 5, 2018
Academies revenue funding allocations
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  • Dec 5, 2018
Academies: information for new academies
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  • Dec 5, 2018
Academy trusts: information for new trusts
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  • Dec 5, 2018
Three staff leave former Downhills Primary after Harris SATs probe
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SATs Primary schools Academies MATs Standards and Testing Agency
  • Dec 4, 2018
Ofsted to introduce new MAT ‘summary evaluations’ this month
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  • Dec 4, 2018
Stuck schools and 5 other key findings in Ofsted's annual report
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  • Dec 4, 2018
TV's 'School' star hits back at minister’s ‘plenty of money’ jibe
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Lord Agnew School Academy trusts School funding School cuts MATs
  • Dec 4, 2018
Ofsted: 'Halfway house' approach to academisation is not working
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  • Dec 4, 2018
Academies financial management and governance reviews
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Academies financial notices to improve
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  • Nov 30, 2018
College-run academy trusts in trouble
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  • Nov 30, 2018
Minister ‘at war’ over academy CEO pay defends Moynihan’s £440k salary
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  • Nov 30, 2018
It’s a Dwan deal: Trust founder’s brother gets rent-free premises for nursery
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Academies MATs Nurseries School buildings Premises
  • Nov 30, 2018
Lord Agnew: the man who wants to chair every MAT in England
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  • Nov 28, 2018
DfE may let Agnew take decisions on his former MAT
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Lord Agnew MAT Angela Rayner MATs
  • Nov 28, 2018
Letters to academy trusts about poor performance
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  • Nov 23, 2018
Northern MAT highlights cheaper housing to attract southern heads
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MATs Headteachers Recruitment Primary schools
  • Nov 23, 2018
DfE accused again of special treatment of minister’s trust
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DfE Academies Management MATs
  • Nov 23, 2018
Evaluation of the regional academy growth fund
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Academies MATs RAGF Finances Funding
  • Nov 21, 2018
Schools urged to work together to continue raising standards
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  • Nov 21, 2018
7 things we learned from the PAC on academy accounts
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Academies MATs Finances Funding PAC
  • Nov 21, 2018
Trusts still worried over long-term ‘financial viability’ – despite getting extra cash to expand
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Academies MATs Funding Expansion Finances
  • Nov 21, 2018
MATs the DfE funded to expand tell of finance fears
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  • Nov 21, 2018
2:30 p.m. - Academy school accounts and performance examined by the Public Accounts Committee
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  • Nov 21, 2018
Former academy head given £850,000 payoff
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  • Nov 19, 2018
DfE slammed for 48-hour ‘fire sale’ of troubled Durand academy
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DfE Academies MATs School sponsorship Rebrokering
  • Nov 19, 2018
Six things we learned about embattled academy trusts
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  • Nov 19, 2018
DfE troubleshooter ‘hugely embarrassed’ by Bright Tribe scandal
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DfE Academies MATs Leaders Management Finances
  • Nov 19, 2018
Durand Academy leisure centre profits still going to ex-head under £850k ‘special payment’ deal
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  • Nov 19, 2018
4:00 p.m. - Academy school accounts and performance examined by the Public Accounts Committee
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  • Nov 19, 2018
Sponsors found for last Bright Tribe and ALAT schools
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  • Nov 16, 2018
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Tory superhead Liam Nolan struck off over his secret salary
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Labour commits to ending free schools programme, announces Angela Rayner
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London academy trust given ‘maximum’ time to repay DfE debts
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Mexborough school finally set to transfer to Delta in November
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UNISON calls for new government inquiry into academy chain accused of misusing public funds
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Directors of Children’s Services demand LAs be allowed to take over failing academies
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Councils better at turning around failing schools than academy chains, report says
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Councils should take schools back from struggling academy chains, says education report
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EPI report: Academies are no better than LA schools, and 7 other important findings
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Free school project hijacked by MATs as parent role diminishes
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Dear Damian Hinds, your academy policy is whim and dogma | Michael Rosen
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Academy chain eyes Northern Irish teachers
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Primary and secondary teamwork lifts results by 20%
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MATs 'must learn the art of persuasion'
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Hinds to discuss ‘savage’ cuts at UCAT academy trust with local MPs
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New research says academy leaders must prepare for nine key ‘break points’
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Ashwell Academy Trust given financial notice to improve
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National Education Trust to close, but academy trust remains
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Osborne urges government to make improving northern schools its 'big idea'
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England's biggest academy chain takes on first new school in five years
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Funding rules prevent MATs from building affordable homes for teachers
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Academy trusts poaching Ofsted inspectors with higher salaries, Spielman warns
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Academies minister reduces his control of Inspiration Trust
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Written answer re parity of pay across different schools operated by the same MAT
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MATs are misusing public money while Ofsted and RSCs bicker, union leader warns
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Former Gove adviser Sam Freedman leaves Teach First to join Ark
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Freedom of information requests to Multi Academy Trusts reveal shocking disparity in asbestos management
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Co-op 'turbo-charging' academies sponsorship in bid to boost the north
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Durand Academy staff urge governors to cease campaign against Harris takeover
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Close schools in areas with surplus places, head of biggest academy trust says
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Marine Academy Plymouth faces moving to new trust
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Norwich’s Engage Multi-Academy Trust hit with financial notice to improve
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University of Bolton vice-chancellor resigns from troubled Bright Tribe academy trust
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Damian Hinds dodges education committee’s questions on MAT inspections
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Liverpool trusts face losing their only academies after poor performance
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Small academy trust begins review into head’s £270k salary
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Sponsors found for eight of the 12 Education Fellowship Trust schools
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Sky-high pay in education isn’t just for university bosses. Look at academies | Warwick Mansell
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Outwood Grange blamed for 'meteoric' exclusion rate rise but won't share data
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WCAT school left without sponsor over £1 million-a-year PFI contract
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Biggest academy trust, AET, set to give up more of its schools
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United Learning boss rules out taking costly PFI schools ‘ever again’
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Policy Exchange asks MATs to provide curriculum resources
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Collapsing academy trust ‘asset-stripped its schools of millions’
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MAT employees asked to relocate 100 miles away after not reading small print
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Wakefield City Academies Trust schools to be split between eight sponsors
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Matrix Academy Trust ordered to review governance after ESFA investigation
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Academy chains received £7 million to take over ‘schools no one wants’
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Wakefield City Academies Trust pulls out of 21 schools
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WCAT to give away all 21 of its schools
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Durand Academy's boarding school will close
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Muslim school where boy, 9, died is to be taken over by the Government
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Bright, poor students are being let down in academy chain schools, suggests study
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Multi-academy trusts not doing enough for high attaining poor pupils, says charity
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Academy trust broke rules over CEO’s £8,000 four-star hotel stays
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Durand Academy Trust to have funding terminated in 12 months
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School improvement ‘failing’ at Academy Trust of Melksham, says Ofsted
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Teacher retention and turnover research - Research update 2: Teacher dynamics in Multi-Academy Trusts
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Ormiston academy chain appoints former Ofsted director as interim leader
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England's largest primary-only academy trust Reach2 gives up two of its schools
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Academies have failed as ‘battering ram for high standards’, argues leading education academic
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Academy chain chiefs and headteachers recognised in Queen's Birthday honours list
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Expanding academy trusts risk losing connections with communities, governors warn
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New MAT formed by 450-year-old grammar school foundation to recruit comprehensives
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Further blow for grammar schools plan as Ark boss speaks out against selection
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RSCs made key decisions on academy trusts they later joined
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Harris Federation academy chief says Theresa May’s grammar school plans are the wrong approach
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Church of England sidesteps government rules over multi-academy trust control
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Tech transitions: UTCs, studio schools,and technical and vocational education in England’s schools
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IPPR report calls for UTC changes
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What the manifestos say on early years
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Inspiration Trust to change turnaround approach with ‘knowledge-led’ curriculum
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Tories promise funding for schools to open nurseries
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Greens pick troubled Isle of Wight academy for education policy launch
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137 academy trusts miss EFA’s accounts deadline
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No way back: How a MAT disbanded a school governing body because it asked to leave
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UK's largest academy trust's caretaker cuts pose serious risk to pupils
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Unions issue final warning to school academy chain over cutbacks
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Limiting new grammars to MATs would avoid 'dead-ends' at 11, says senior MP
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Academy trusts could engage parents by offering discounted flights, former Eton head suggests
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Tim Coulson steps down as RSC to head academy trust
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RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust
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More than 130 new free schools to create more good places
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REAch2’s spin-off academy trust renamed Astrea
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Schools invited to express interest in new £140m improvement fund
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Sixth-form college sets up its own MAT after academy conversion
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Greening heralds £2.4bn school capital funding, but money isn’t new
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'Ministers are not learning lessons from NHS cuts': Four education funding warnings issued by MPs today
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Greenwood Academies Trust set to lose two schools
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Former trust boss’s new private school closes after six months
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Four academies approved to hire pupils as apprentices and lend staff to train others
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The secret deals behind rocketing school CEO pay
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Ofsted: Northern MAT ‘failed to secure’ school improvements
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'Underfunded' Durand spends more than £200k on legal fees
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Education Fellowship trust gives up all 12 schools over poor performance
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Minister tells schools to emulate business and stop giving under-performing staff 'benefit of the doubt'
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MPs call for tighter restrictions on academy trusts
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Give councils power to set up academy trusts, MPs recommend
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Early signs suggest significant benefits in schools joining forces
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Let councils run academy chains, say MPs
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Restrict academy chain expansion, ministers warned
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Commons report raises doubts over benefits of multi-academy trusts
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MPs sound warning over mixed results from academy trusts
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Multi-academy trusts: Committee to publish report
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Council bans school deficits amid fears they will deter academy sponsors
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Vicky Beer reverses her resignation as regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire
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Auditor questions financial future of scandal-hit Perry Beeches Academy Trust
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Two for-profit sponsors back out of academy market
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11 academy trusts close their doors
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Staff at Bethnal Green school suspended amid claims of 'exam irregularities'
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First new grammar schools 'could open by 2020'
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Sixty ‘orphan’ schools shunned by academy sponsors
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Academies count the cost of fraud
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Revealed: The 23 trusts that broke rules over £4m related-party transactions
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DfE not 'on top of' academy land values, admits top official
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Cash-strapped academy chain could spend more than £1m on PR
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Half of academies have spent more than their income
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Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss
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Multi-academy trusts swap data systems for Progress 8
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Brooke Weston academy trust invests £1m in stocks
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RSC performance measure quietly dropped
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Debts of £4.5m threaten future of academy trust sponsored by grammar school
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Academy chain leader ‘won’t rule out’ expansion of grammar streams
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New boss at England's biggest academy chain to consider converting schools to grammars
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MAT league tables 2016: Over half of trusts “significantly below average”, and 5 other findings
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Schools put in special measures at ‘top-performing’ WCAT
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Academy chain boss to head England's biggest school exam board
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Ormiston chief Toby Salt takes top role at exam board AQA
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Ofsted chief slams Brexit as a ‘national preoccupation’ amid fears education could suffer
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Heads fear 'forced academisation' of faith schools
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MAT set up by former Cameron adviser to remain independent after £400k funding boost
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Councils run crisis communications classes for schools as trusts up their PR focus
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Academy trusts told to avoid isolated academies
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Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust ‘let down pupils’
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Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust has ‘let down pupils’
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National schools commissioner warns against selection within MATs
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Governors back first sixth form college merger with multi-academy trust
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First sixth form college and academy trust merger planned
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Warning notice tells Plymouth Cast academy trust to "urgently" address weaknesses
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Toby Young’s flagship free school trust woos other schools amid financial chill | Warwick Mansell
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DfE publication on design principles for multi academy trusts
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MillionPlus responds to the ‘Schools that work for everyone’ green paper
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Newham schools consider suing council over £500k PFI costs
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Academy chain AET appoints private school boss as CEO
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Academisation will reach a 'tipping point' by 2022, says minister
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Multi-academy trusts 'health checks' and post-16 area reviews scope examined
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Grammars: ‘We must concentrate on what happens in classrooms, not the label on the school gate’
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Official warnings for two South-West academy chains in serious difficulties
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Plymouth Cast trust criticised over leadership and safeguarding failings
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Try before you buy: the new way for multi-academy trusts to takeover schools
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Academies are 'key' to improving schools in the north, review claims
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National schools commissioner addresses college leaders
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NAHT and NASBM survey on school business management in Multi Academy Trusts
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Lord Sainsbury demands more cash for technical education
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'Scrap plans to cut £600m school improvement grant' say councils
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New Aldridge Education trust ditches struggling academy
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Sir Greg Martin: Durand will close if funding is withdrawn from trust
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Bright Tribe investigation reveals chain breached rules – but will not face notice to improve
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Village schools are 'at risk of extinction': Headteachers warn funding squeeze means thousands of small primaries could face cuts
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Government ‘extremely concerned’ over academy trust that paid CEO £82k for 15 weeks’ work
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The Giles Academy trust issued with financial notice over ‘serious breach’ of land-buying agreement
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'Extreme' DfE concern over academy trust that paid CEO £82K for 15 weeks' work
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Outrage over Lambeth headteacher Sir Craig Tunstall's £370,000 per year salary
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CEO of country's biggest academy chain AET to step down
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Multi-academy trusts 6 times more likely to be named after men than women
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Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with less than 20 pupils
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Small school scandal deepens as academy trust found running sixth form with fewer than 20 pupils
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Executive headteacher of 8 local authority primaries paid more than £330,000-a-year
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Quality collaboration should focus on improvement, not PR
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