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Ex-children’s minister gets £550-a-day safeguarding review job

The former children’s minister and MP Edward Timpson will chair a new panel set up to examine child safeguarding…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Fifteen schools chosen as T-levels pioneers

Fifteen schools are among the first 52 providers chosen to deliver the government’s new technical qualifications. These new T-Levels…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Small PRU trust Schools Company stripped of all four schools

A multi-academy trust that presided over the deterioration of three pupil referral units and a secondary school has been…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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Ministers’ school visits show ‘ideological obsession’ with academies

The education secretary has visited more than twice as many academies and free schools than maintained ones – and…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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National teaching job website shrouded with secrecy

The Department for Education has finally launched its free teacher vacancy website – but it somehow didn’t manage to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Revealed: Bolton Wanderers Free School’s £380k deficit

A free school linked to a former premier league football club had a deficit of more than £380,000 when…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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New £9.8m fund to gather world’s ‘best’ teaching practices

A new £9.8 million fund will deliver a five-year project to gather the best teaching practices from around the…

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
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Bright Tribe shelves plan to merge with sister trust

Plans for the beleaguered Bright Tribe Trust (BTT) to merge with its sister chain are now on hold –…

Pippa Allen-Kinross
Pippa Allen-Kinross
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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