News Exclusive 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 8y John Dickens 8y News Exclusive 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 8y John Dickens 8y News 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 8y Billy Camden 8y News 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 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News 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 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Exclusive 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 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive 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 8y Jess Staufenberg 8y News Exclusive Booming academy transfer market pushes costs to potential £30m More than 100 schools are now rebrokered every year as the booming academy transfer market pushes costs to a… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News Exclusive Resignations and husbands: how RSC conflicts are coming to the fore The fourth resignation of a regional schools commissioner in the past 19 months illustrates how the government is doing… John Dickens 8y John Dickens 8y News School support staff ‘increasingly’ teaching lessons, union warns Schools are increasingly deploying support staff to teach lessons, a survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News Performance-related pay criticised by thousands of teachers Thousands of teachers have criticised the government’s performance-related pay system, with many claiming it has denied them access to… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y News ASCL leadership election: Geoff Barton wins landslide victory Geoff Barton, the popular headteacher and anti-establishment challenger in the race to be the new leader of the Association of… Freddie Whittaker 8y Freddie Whittaker 8y Newer 1 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 977 Older