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TSC head defends ‘high bar’ as 3 in 4 teaching school hub bids rejected

Just one in four applicants to the government’s new teaching school hubs programme were approved, new figures show. Data…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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‘Gross intellectual snobbery’ – former Ofsted strategy chief hits back at academy CEOs

Claims by leading academy bosses that Ofsted’s new inspection regime favours middle-class pupils have been dismissed as “nonsense” by…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ofsted to investigate schools’ financial decision-making

Ofsted is set to begin diving into schools’ financial decision-making to test if it provides “more insight” into the…

James Carr
James Carr
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Former Tory policy chief to advise Gavin Williamson at DfE

Former Conservative Party researcher and policy chief Innes Taylor has been appointed as a special adviser at the Department…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Is the DfE’s teaching ad spend paying off?

The government’s annual spend on teacher recruitment adverts has continued to rise and is now costing an average of…

James Carr
James Carr
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Academy CEO still ‘absent’ as whistleblower probe continues

An academy boss who has been absent from his own trust since April after threatening to “deal with” a…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Leading CEOs: New Ofsted inspections favour middle-class kids

The heads of two of the country’s most successful academy trusts have slammed Ofsted’s new regime – claiming “it…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Financial warning for trust that ‘cannot identify’ its own trustees

A struggling academy trust that cannot “accurately” identify its members and trustees has been told it must improve its…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ofsted running unofficial ‘sub-grade system’

Ofsted is now issuing caveats to schools retaining their grades in short inspections, a practice experts warn is establishing…

James Carr
James Carr
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Single-school academy trust head’s pay soars to £280k

The head of an academy trust with just one school saw his pay rise to at least £280,000 last…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Employment and completion rates aren’t a good way to measure quality of ITE, finds Ofsted

Outcome measures are not an effective indicator of the quality of initial teacher education, because the recruitment landscape means…

James Carr
James Carr
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What’s preventing more schools from accessing apprenticeships?

Almost three years after the launch of the apprenticeship levy, schools are still struggling to find ways to spend…

JL Dutaut
JL Dutaut