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Accounts Watch: Academy trust chief gets £85,000 severance pay-out

An academy trust chief executive who resigned after a misconduct investigation received a payout of of more than £85,000….

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Ministers urged to drop DBS check rules ‘killing off’ school language exchanges

Education leaders are set to meet the schools minister and urge him to amend new guidance on criminal record…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Educational psychologists stripped from schools

A decline in the number of educational psychologists working with schools has prompted calls for a shake-up of funding….

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Basildon Academies trust issued fourth government warning

An academy trust dubbed one of the early “untouchables” has been issued with its fourth government warning notice. The…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Multi-academy trusts spend less on ‘back office’ but don’t pay teachers more … and 6 other EPI findings

Schools in multi-academy trusts spend less on “back office” costs and more on primary teaching staff, compared to standalone…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Treasury claws back £384m academy conversion funding

More than £380 million of a £600 million pot for building capacity in the academies system has been clawed…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker


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Black girls take the lead in STEM subjects

Black girls are the only ethnic group that outnumber their male peers taking science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM)…

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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Regional schools commissioner league tables 2014-15

After a six-month battle with the government, Schools Week has obtained the data used by ministers to assess the…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Brooke Weston academy trust invests £1m in stocks

Entrepreneurial academy trusts are taking advantage of their cash freedoms to make six-figure profits by investing in stocks and…

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Teaching apprenticeships: the new school direct?

Ministers are drawing up plans for an apprenticeship route into teaching that could replace current on-the-job training schemes, Schools…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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No council cash for new free schools in Manchester

Manchester City Council is refusing to budget for three of the four free schools due to open in the…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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RSC performance measure quietly dropped

The government stopped judging regional commissioners on how many schools in their regions were in need of an academy…

John Dickens
John Dickens