The winners of RSC advisory board elections revealed
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  • Mar 14, 2022
Eight become nine as DfE shakes up RSC regions
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  • Feb 10, 2022
DfE restructure delays advisory board election results
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  • Jan 28, 2022
Ministers ‘consider’ new London RSC as part of wider DfE restructure
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  • Jan 24, 2022
RSC advisory board election results delayed
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  • Jan 21, 2022
Candidates revealed for RSC advisory board elections
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  • Nov 22, 2021
DfE director Jonathan Duff to become east of England RSC
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  • Nov 18, 2021
Nominations open for RSC adviser elections
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  • Oct 11, 2021
Another RSC job up for grabs as Sue Baldwin stands down
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  • Sep 17, 2021
RSC adviser roles thrown open to CEOs, with elections set for September
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  • Aug 6, 2021
Regional schools commissioners: 6 key findings from the education select committee
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  • Apr 13, 2021
Academy conversion backlog of failed schools cut by 62%
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  • Apr 13, 2021
Education Committee questions RSCs and National Schools Commissioner
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  • Apr 8, 2021
Former RSC on board of trust rapped in government probe
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  • Nov 21, 2020
RSCs will ignore trusts’ 2020 results data and ‘pseudo Progress 8’ scores
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  • Sep 28, 2020
Expanding trusts issued warning notices over school failures
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  • Feb 29, 2020
DfE hiring three new regional schools commissioners
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  • Feb 26, 2020
Longest-serving RSC Vicky Beer to retire
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  • Feb 26, 2020
Former RSC joins Ormiston academy trust
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  • Nov 9, 2019
RSCs drafted in to provide ‘insight’ on policy
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  • Oct 11, 2019
RSC league tables 2017-18: How regional commissioners are performing
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  • Jul 29, 2019
£1bn extra and 4 other ways to improve Northern schools
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  • Jun 5, 2019
RSC ‘chaos’ is hampering school improvement, warn Northern Powerhouse leaders
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  • Jun 5, 2019
DfE appoints temporary regional school commissioners
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  • May 30, 2019
Former primary head and education adviser appointed as interim RSCs
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  • May 30, 2019
Why more civil servants overseeing academies could empower heads
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  • May 13, 2019
Two more career civil servants made regional schools commissionersv
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  • May 9, 2019
Two senior civil servants appointed as RSCs
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  • May 9, 2019
RSC Martin Post to ‘return to the sector’ after contract ends this summer
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  • Apr 30, 2019
Career civil servants could head academies system under DfE reforms
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  • Apr 12, 2019
Should RSCs have a 'cooling off period' before taking new jobs?
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  • Mar 2, 2019
Conflict of interest questions after latest RSC resignation
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  • Feb 25, 2019
Another RSC quits to join an academy trust
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  • Feb 25, 2019
Lisa Mannall becomes latest RSC to leave for academy trust job
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  • Feb 25, 2019
RSC league tables 2018: How are the nation's schools commissioners doing?
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  • Nov 17, 2018
Analysis of DfE academy system figures reveals wide variations between England's eight regions
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  • Nov 15, 2018
Schools causing concern
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  • Nov 8, 2018
Andrew Warren appointed West Midlands RSC
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  • Oct 30, 2018
Might Labour hand RSCs’ powers to councils?
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  • Oct 10, 2018
RSCs have ‘escalated’ 21 decisions about schools to ministers
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  • Oct 8, 2018
Find, join or create a network for school business professionals
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  • Jul 31, 2018
NEU comment on Damian Hinds' speech
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  • May 4, 2018
Hinds pledges greater transparency over decisions about academies
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  • May 4, 2018
MATs are misusing public money while Ofsted and RSCs bicker, union leader warns
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  • Apr 10, 2018
Lack of transparency around 'shadowy' RSCs 'could open door to corruption'
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  • Apr 10, 2018
Northern schools blast RSCs in children’s commissioner report
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  • Mar 26, 2018
Hinds to ‘clarify’ roles of RSCs and Ofsted to ease schools’ confusion
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  • Mar 10, 2018
Ofsted Chief Inspector questioned
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  • Mar 2, 2018
The Ofsted cast-offs still 'inspecting' schools
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  • Feb 16, 2018
DfE can't say what £31m regional schools commissioners budget pays for
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  • Feb 16, 2018
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  • Feb 9, 2018
RSCs to dramatically reduce 'shadow' school inspections
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  • Feb 7, 2018
New guidance on Schools Causing Concern published by DfE
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  • Jan 31, 2018
DfE looking at Ofsted and RSC overlap
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  • Jan 26, 2018
DfE urges caution over schools dropping below GCSE floor standard for first time
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  • Jan 26, 2018
DfE examining whether Ofsted/RSC 'overlap' is waste of money
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  • Jan 26, 2018
Revealed: RSC’s links to school with severe safeguarding failures
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  • Jan 22, 2018
Academy bosses appointed to powerful committees despite losing elections
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  • Dec 20, 2017
Correspondence from Lord Agnew
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  • Dec 19, 2017
Spielman: Ofsted report into Reception curriculum is 'as controversial as custard'
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  • Dec 13, 2017
Lord Agnew's first ministerial appearance at the education committee: 5 things we learned
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Carter and Agnew at education committee: 6 things we learned
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Ofsted inspections of multi-academy trusts would not be 'helpful', says Lord Agnew
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  • Dec 5, 2017
Comment on Multi Academy Trusts
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  • Nov 30, 2017
Comment on Social Mobility Commission report
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Give RSCs responsibility for teacher supply, says Social Mobility Commission
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Social Mobility Commission report: The findings and recommendations for schools
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  • Nov 28, 2017
Accountants 'brought in to examine collapse of Wakefield City Academies Trust'
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  • Nov 21, 2017
Schools commissioners or local authorities – which is the real ‘middle tier’?
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  • Nov 5, 2017
Cost of regional schools commissioners soars to £26 million
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  • Oct 25, 2017
Essex council plans spin-off multi-academy trust
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  • Oct 23, 2017
RSC pushed to rebroker WCAT schools nine months before official announcements
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  • Oct 10, 2017
Headteacher board elections: What you need to know
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  • Oct 9, 2017
Carter identifies 8 kinds of 'decliner' and 'improver' schools
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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
Troubled Wakefield City Academies Trust to give up all 21 of its schools
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  • Sep 8, 2017
DfE pledges more transparency for secretive academies system
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  • Sep 8, 2017
DfE schools tsar intervened to curb excessive academy chief exec pay
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Academy secrets the DfE tried to hide – part 3
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  • Sep 7, 2017
Academy secrets the DfE wanted to hide - part 2
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  • Sep 6, 2017
DfE advertises ‘school improvement’ roles for RSC office
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  • Sep 4, 2017
Primary school floor standards for 2017
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  • Aug 31, 2017
'We need transparency,' say heads campaigning to scrutinise academies system
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  • Aug 29, 2017
Refusal to release academy documents fuels fears DfE 'has something to hide'
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  • Aug 29, 2017
Headteachers fear tomorrow's GCSE results will leave them in the job queue
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  • Aug 23, 2017
Candidates announced for RSC headteacher board elections
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  • Aug 4, 2017
Just six people stand for election to headteacher board in North of England
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  • Aug 4, 2017
RSC to take ‘unprecedented’ decision on whether a primary can leave its trust
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  • Aug 1, 2017
Academy trust boss appointed as new South West RSC
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  • Jul 26, 2017
New regional schools commissioner announced for the South West
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  • Jul 26, 2017
Top NFER research reports to read over the summer
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  • Jul 21, 2017
Revealed: Sub-regional improvement boards set up to advise RSCs
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  • Jul 17, 2017
Extent of academy secrecy revealed as DfE publishes only 3% of papers
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  • Jul 14, 2017
Schools in Derby a serious concern, says Ofsted
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  • Jul 13, 2017
Nominations open for RSC headteacher board elections
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  • Jul 7, 2017
Sutton Trust report shows no single school structure is perfect, says NAHT
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  • Jun 30, 2017
Warning over impact of academy expansion on school-based childcare
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Ofqual warns Ofsted, RSCs and governors against 'knee-jerk reactions' to GCSE results
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  • Jun 29, 2017
Top DfE civil servant appointed as new East of England RSC
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  • Jun 28, 2017
DfE official named as regional schools commissioner for the East of England
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  • Jun 28, 2017
Just 150 seconds to decide the fate of a school
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  • Jun 23, 2017
Hold open tenders for school takeovers to boost RSC transparency, think tank urges
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  • Jun 14, 2017
RSCs made key decisions on academy trusts they later joined
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  • Jun 12, 2017
South west RSC Rebecca Clark resigns to join Ark academy chain
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  • May 31, 2017
Another regional schools commissioner leaving to join an academy chain
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  • May 31, 2017
Headteacher board face chaos as elections loom
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  • May 5, 2017
RSCs under fire after ordering interventions in coasting schools
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  • May 5, 2017
Research round-up 1 May 2017
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  • May 2, 2017
Tim Coulson steps down as RSC to head academy trust
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  • Apr 21, 2017
RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust
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  • Apr 21, 2017
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 21 April 2017
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  • Apr 21, 2017
Regional disparities could hamper efforts to turn around struggling schools, report finds
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  • Apr 20, 2017
Academy chain shortage in the north, while south prospers
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  • Apr 20, 2017
New analysis reveals dramatic differences in the challenges facing Regional Schools Commissioners
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  • Apr 20, 2017
Rayner: Labour has ‘will and vision’ to improve education
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  • Mar 11, 2017
More than a fifth of academy transfers involve potential conflicts of interest
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  • Mar 10, 2017
Senior council official appointed regional schools commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Council education boss appointed new RSC for East Midlands and Humber
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  • Mar 6, 2017
New RSC appointed for East Midlands and the Humber
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  • Mar 6, 2017
Give councils power to set up academy trusts, MPs recommend
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  • Feb 28, 2017
Council bans school deficits amid fears they will deter academy sponsors
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  • Feb 24, 2017
Vicky Beer to stay on as RSC after departure U-turn
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  • Feb 17, 2017
Vicky Beer reverses her resignation as regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire
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  • Feb 17, 2017
Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore
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  • Feb 10, 2017
Concern over 'poaching' as another regional schools commissioner quits
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  • Feb 8, 2017
RSC performance measure quietly dropped
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  • Jan 27, 2017
Regional schools commissioner league tables 2014-15
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  • Jan 27, 2017
Regional schools commissioner Jennifer Bexon-Smith to retire
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  • Jan 14, 2017
Regional schools commissioners issue warnings to two more academies
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  • Jan 12, 2017
Troubled Baverstock Academy to close after government fails to find new sponsor
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  • Jan 11, 2017
Baverstock Academy closure on again after second government U-turn
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  • Jan 11, 2017
Academy trusts told to avoid isolated academies
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  • Dec 17, 2016
Plymouth CAST academy trust issued warning notice after leadership failings
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  • Dec 14, 2016
DfE publication on design principles for multi academy trusts
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  • Dec 12, 2016
RSC Guide: Christine Quinn, West Midlands
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  • Dec 6, 2016
RSC Guide: Janet Renou, the North of England
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  • Dec 6, 2016
RSC boards won’t guarantee SEND and post-16 inclusion, says DfE
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  • Dec 2, 2016
Primaries are now becoming academies faster than secondaries
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  • Nov 30, 2016
Quarter of sponsored academies miss floor target or judged inadequate in first two years
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TES Academies Ofsted rating DfE RSCs
  • Nov 29, 2016
Government continues judging RSCs on academy conversion rate – despite conflict of interest concerns
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  • Nov 29, 2016
RSC Guide: Dominic Herrington, south-east and south London
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  • Nov 29, 2016
RSC Guide: Martin Post, north-west London and south central England
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  • Nov 29, 2016
Academy 'secrecy' concerns over lack of headteacher board minutes
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  • Nov 25, 2016
Northern Powerhouse schools strategy: Halt standalone academies, and 11 other key findings
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  • Nov 23, 2016
National schools commissioner addresses college leaders
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  • Nov 19, 2016