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DfE threatens to terminate Inspiration Trust academy's funding agreement
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Mar 15, 2019
School under fire after banning football from playground over health and safety fears
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Mar 6, 2019
School bans football from the playground over 'health and safety' fears sparking furious backlash and petition from pupils
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Mar 6, 2019
Inspiration Trust battles Ofsted over special-measures judgement
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Feb 28, 2019
Inspiration Trust slams Ofsted inspectors after primary school put in special measures
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Feb 28, 2019
Star Academies Trust warned it could lose ‘inadequate’ academy
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Feb 22, 2019
First non-faith school inspected at Star Academies Trust put in special measures
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Feb 15, 2019
Two state Steiner schools face possible closure or takeover
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Feb 13, 2019
Two more Steiner schools face funding termination
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Feb 13, 2019
Parents of children in ‘failing’ Steiner schools fight back against Ofsted
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Feb 5, 2019
E-ACT insists it has ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to off-rolling after Ofsted findings
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Feb 5, 2019
Spielman: Ofsted has identified off-rolling at three schools
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Feb 5, 2019
From rioting pupils to record GCSE results: How a high school turned its fortunes around in four years
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Estyn
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Jan 1, 2019
The full list of Wales' most troubled schools which inspectors Estyn say are in special measures or need monitoring
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Dec 22, 2018
The free school facing funding axe
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Dec 9, 2018
Future of Educating Greater Manchester hangs in the balance
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Nov 27, 2018
School featured in Educating Greater Manchester is put in special measures
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Nov 27, 2018
Educating Greater Manchester school in special measures
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Nov 26, 2018
Channel 4's Educating Greater Manchester school Harrop Fold in special measures
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Nov 26, 2018
Educating Greater Manchester school Harrop Fold in special measures
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Nov 26, 2018
Educating Greater Manchester school put into special measures
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Nov 26, 2018
Educating Greater Manchester school Harrop Fold placed in special measures
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Nov 26, 2018
Ofsted was 'brutal' says head who resigned on TV's School
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Nov 23, 2018
Free school slammed by Ofsted after refusing to enter any students for GCSEs
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Oct 29, 2018
The damning verdict of inspectors on a Bridgend school kept open after parent campaign
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Oct 24, 2018
Political row over special measures statistics in Wales
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Sep 5, 2018
St Michael's Primary in Treforest put in special measures over 'weak' teaching
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Sep 4, 2018
Brightlingsea pupils 'feel unsafe' at Colne school
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Jul 5, 2018
Faith school on probation for censoring Sherlock Holmes
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Jun 27, 2018
Jewish school found redacting textbooks put into special measures
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Jun 26, 2018
Gloucestershire school threatened with closure over standards
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Feb 21, 2018
‘We feel unwanted’: an ‘orphan’ school at the sharp end of academisation
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Jan 22, 2018
'We're on the edge of collapse': Angry heads confront DfE funding boss
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Jan 16, 2018
Academy 'destroying our futures' say pupils
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Nov 29, 2017
One of Wales' most troubled schools is taken out of special measures
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Nov 27, 2017
Padstow Christmas tree treat cancelled after critical Ofsted report
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Nov 23, 2017
Primary school children banned from decorating Christmas tree after school was given 'inadequate' Ofsted rating
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Nov 22, 2017
Father accused of Trojan horse plot says Ofsted report vindicates him
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Sep 20, 2017
Ofsted lodges last-minute appeal against High Court’s Durand Academy ruling
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Sep 11, 2017
Academy spends £300,000 to get the High Court to quash Ofsted report that said the school was 'inadequate'
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Aug 15, 2017
Durand: DfE pushing on with termination of funding despite High Court quashing Ofsted report
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Aug 14, 2017
Arrogant Ofsted tried to destroy us, says head of academy after legal victory
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Aug 14, 2017
Judge: Durand management may have taken ‘eye off the ball’ over EFA squabble
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Aug 14, 2017
Free school placed in special measures after failing to put any year 11 students forward For GCSE exams
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Jul 27, 2017
DfE leans on free school that entered no Year 11s for GCSEs
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Jul 27, 2017
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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Jul 26, 2017
Durand Academy demands High Court quashes 'glaringly perverse' Ofsted report
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Jul 25, 2017
One of Wales' worst schools has transformed its fortunes in under two years
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Jul 9, 2017
Oversubscribed Cardiff primary school to expand and take more pupils from September
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Jul 3, 2017
Secret Teacher: I feared special measures – but it's made us stronger
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May 27, 2017
Willenhall E-Act Academy handed worst Ofsted report possible after pupils ‘pelt inspectors with food’
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May 12, 2017
Outstanding school put into special measures 'because it did not have a fence'
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Apr 30, 2017
Troubled Baverstock Academy at centre of police fraud investigation
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Apr 10, 2017
UTC that ‘knocked pupils’ aspirations’ put in special measures
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Apr 5, 2017
UTC that 'knocked pupils' confidence' goes into special measures
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Apr 5, 2017
Council intervenes over failing academy – but told by Ofsted it isn’t responsible
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Mar 24, 2017
How Teach First helped a Welsh college in its challenge to be taken out of special measures
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Mar 6, 2017
'Education establishment' deliberately published highly critical draft report, Durand Academy claims
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Feb 2, 2017
Ofsted places embattled Durand Academy in special measures
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Feb 1, 2017
Schools put in special measures at ‘top-performing’ WCAT
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Jan 18, 2017
Ofsted: Greenwood Academies Trust ‘let down pupils’
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Dec 16, 2016
Wales 'special measures' education call
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Dec 12, 2016
Bright Tribe walks away from struggling schools in north
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Dec 8, 2016
Ofsted sticks school in special measures, criticising ‘messy’ talks over academy status
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Dec 4, 2016
Isles of Scilly’s only secondary school placed in special measures – what now?
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Dec 3, 2016
Academy sponsored by ‘top-performing’ Bright Tribe ‘placed in special measures’
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Nov 25, 2016
Sir David Carter spoke about school improvement today. Here are five things we learned
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Oct 19, 2016
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