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Academies Enterprise Trust stripped of two more schools

The country’s largest academy chain has been stripped of two schools – and is in talks about rebrokering more…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Spielman warns sixth form colleges about drop in Ofsted grades

Sixth-form colleges have received worse Ofsted grades this year, meaning that fewer than were first expected will now be…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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DfE u-turn over school fire sprinklers

The government are reportedly dropping plans to weaken fire safety standards in new schools. The Observer has learned that…

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
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Northern Rocks 2017: What we learned at the annual conference

The Northern Rocks conference kicked off with a minute-long round of applause for its co-organiser Emma Hardy, who was…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Al-Madinah free school rebrands, but can’t shake financial troubles

A Derby free school trust labelled “chaotic and dysfunctional” has now rebranded, but is still dealing with the financial…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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DfE orders fire safety checks to identify schools ‘at risk’ after Grenfell blaze

The government has instructed councils and academy trusts to carry out fire safety checks on school buildings to identify…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden


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Spielman says inspectors will look ‘more closely’ at schools’ curriculums

The curriculum has been lost “as a needle in a haystack” within Ofsted inspections despite being the “real meat”…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Trust’s shorter summer holiday policy causes rise in term-time absence

An academy trust has abandoned the experimental holiday calendar it introduced to alleviate cost pressures and reduce term-time absences,…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Teachers’ bravery praised as schools unite after Grenfell trauma

The “guts and bravery” of school leaders have been hailed in the aftermath of the Grenfell blaze, as neighbouring…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Private religious schools flout equality laws – but remain open

Religious private schools that have repeatedly failed their legal equality duties have nevertheless been allowed to remain open –…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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EEF: New trials launched to test school careers programmes

Two new Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) trials will test how different careers education programmes can boost teenagers’ motivation at…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Revealed: The ‘sausage-machine schools’ pushing new teachers out the profession

More than 100 “sausage-machine schools” which recruit and lose high numbers of newly-qualified teachers in a “cycle of grinding…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg