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Parkfield School still without sponsor ahead of move to £35m new site

A struggling Bournemouth free school is still without a sponsor less than two months ahead of its move to…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Education committee: Government ‘yet to prove case’ for new grammar schools

The MP who chairs Parliament’s influential education committee says the government has “yet to prove the case” for new…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: The academy trust behind a £200k severance deal

The Great Academies Education Trust, set up by a housing group, has paid £200,000 severance to a former employee…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Pathway to ‘chartered teacher status’ will open in 2018, says College of Teaching

A programme for “chartered teacher status” will open next year, promises the Chartered College of Teaching. But critics question…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Just 54 citizenship teachers were trained this year

The number of new citizenship teachers in England has plummeted since 2010, prompting calls for a more “robust” approach…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Two for-profit sponsors back out of academy market

Two academy trusts set up by for-profit providers that have made millions running schools across the globe have ended…

John Dickens
John Dickens


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11 academy trusts close their doors

Eleven multi-academy trusts handed at least £770,000 of government start-up funding are set to fold after their schools were…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teach First plans 40% growth in social opportunity areas

Teach First plans to shift its focus away from London to six of the government’s 12 “opportunity areas”. Brett…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Schools will not be forced to promote National Citizen Service – but it will still get £424m a year

An extra-curricular project that schools were told they had to promote in assemblies is in financial disarray yet will…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Michael Gove: UTCs have failed

Michael Gove, the former education secretary and a key architect of the government’s fast-unravelling university technical colleges (UTCs) programme…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Long-awaited Ofsted report on double inspections to be published ‘before March’

A long-awaited Ofsted report on the “reliability” of inspections – tested through sending two inspectors to a school to…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Schools forced to ‘reintegrate’ pupils after UTC and studio school closures

Schools that lose high proportions of pupils to university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools often have to “reintegrate”…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg