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‘Show more respect for religious schools’, Jewish faith leaders tell Ofsted

Jewish faith leaders have urged the schools inspectorate to show more “respect” for faith schools. Members of the Orthodox…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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New sponsor and ‘substantial capital programme’ confirmed for struggling Whitehaven Academy

The Cumbria Education Trust (CET) has been given leave to take on the troubled Whitehaven Academy in Cumbria, more…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Schools Company: DfE denies claims it had ‘positive’ relationship with troubled trust

The Department for Education has flatly denied that it maintained a “positive” relationship with the imploding Schools Company Trust…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools Company: Board minutes reveal extent of failure at doomed academy trust

Financial incompetency, appalling school buildings and close relationships with government have been revealed in the minutes of trustee meetings…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools Company: ‘Huge concern’ over pupil referral units run by failed trust

Safeguarding breaches, unsafe premises and inadequate staff were among the failings identified at the three pupil referral units run…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Schools Company: Doomed trust to end the year ‘£8 million in deficit’

The Schools Company Trust is expected to finish this academic year with a deficit “in the region of £8…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross


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Revealed: How Bright Tribe founder ‘resigned’ as an academy sponsor over disagreement with DfE

Bright Tribe founder Michael Dwan withdrew his support from the ailing trust amid frustrations over government scrutiny and concerns…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Bright Tribe threatened court action over failed bid to run Cumbrian schools

Attempts by the Bright Tribe academy trust to create an “axis of improvement” for schools in rural Cumbria failed…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Did failed Greater Manchester UTC get ‘free pass’ despite warnings?

The viability of the failed Greater Manchester university technical college was questioned by government officials even before it opened,…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspection gap for outstanding schools widens to 11 years, and other findings from Ofsted

The amount of time between inspections of outstanding schools with the longest gaps has risen to 11 years, Ofsted’s annual…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Teach First founder Brett Wigdortz to chair embattled National Citizen Service

Brett Wigdortz, the founder of Teach First, has been appointed as the new chair of the National Citizen Service. The…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Secondary schools will have 418,000 more pupils by 2027

The number of pupils in English secondary schools is set to rise by 418,000 over the next nine years,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg