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NAO: Carillion made big profits from its work at schools

The collapsed construction firm Carillion made profits of up to 15 per cent on its work for schools in…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools are employing foreign teachers ‘out of desperation’

Schools are being forced to employ foreign teachers the face of a growing recruitment and retention crisis, but not…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Doomed Perry Beeches academy trust had a £1.5 million deficit

The controversial Perry Beeches academy trust had a £1.5 million deficit in the year before it was wound up,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Collaborative Academies Trust will lose all but one of its schools

Eight of the nine schools run by the Essex-based Collaborative Academies Trust are to be moved to new sponsors….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Free school that left pupil behind on school trip to close

A specialist science and technology free school in Newcastle will close this summer, three months after one of its…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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£270k-a-year head quits academy trust role

A headteacher in Warwickshire who has been criticised over her £270,000 salary has left her role “with immediate effect”….

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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DfE to review impact of Baker Clause careers duty

The impact of a new law which forces schools to allow training organisations the chance to speak to pupils…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspectors praise ‘considerable improvements’ at turnaround school, but slam sponsor for lack of support

Leaders of a school run by the doomed Education Fellowship Trust have been praised for “considerable improvements” which raised…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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90% of heads support compulsory PSHE lessons

There is “overwhelming” support in schools for the introduction of compulsory PSHE lessons, according to a new report from…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Dunraven Educational Trust will adopt troubled Durand Academy

A small London academy trust has been lined up to run Durand Academy, after the Harris Federation backed out…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Teacher vacancy website up-and-running in north east and Cambridgeshire

The government has finally launched a free teacher vacancy website in two regions of the country, promising it will…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Academy trusts invited to set up ‘secure schools’ for pupils in custody

Academy trusts are being invited to set up “secure schools” for pupils languishing in youth custody, under new plans…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg