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RSC Tim Coulson resigns to head Samuel Ward Academy Trust

Regional schools commissioner Tim Coulson is stepping down from the role to head up a multi-academy trust – leaving...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Academy chain shortage in the north, while south prospers

There aren’t enough good academy sponsors ready to take over the number of failing schools in Lancashire and West...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Council intervenes over failing academy – but told by Ofsted it isn’t responsible

A local authority has taken the unusual step of pleading with a regional schools commissioner for an inadequate academy...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Tudor Grange pulls out of plan to admit year 7s

An academy permitted by its regional schools commissioner to change the year groups it admits has cancelled the plan...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Revealed: RSC offered academy trust a deal to limit ‘reputational damage’

A schools commissioner offered a troubled academy trust a “sweetheart deal” to quietly shift its schools to avoid information...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore

The fourth resignation of a regional schools commissioner in the past 19 months illustrates how the government is doing...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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RSC Vicky Beer resigns to head new academy trust

Vicky Beer, regional schools commissioner for Lancashire and West Yorkshire, is stepping down after less than a year and...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Regional schools commissioner league tables 2014-15

After a six-month battle with the government, Schools Week has obtained the data used by ministers to assess the...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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RSC performance measure quietly dropped

The government stopped judging regional commissioners on how many schools in their regions were in need of an academy...

John Dickens
John Dickens