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What’s happening on the education campaign trails this week?

Academy big guns boost campaign coffers Two leading hedge fund managers have donated to the general election campaigns of…

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Lib Dems want top DfE spot

The Conservative party has insisted that education secretary Nicky Morgan is doing a “great job” after Liberal Democrat leader Nick…

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Telford trust winds up after poor Ofsted inspections

A new sponsor has stepped in to support the leaders of a multi-academy trust after its four schools were…

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Mother wins delayed reception place for summer-born daughter

A mother has won a delayed reception place for her daughter born in August, putting further pressure on other…

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Academy big guns boost campaign coffers

Two leading hedge fund managers have donated to the general election campaigns of schools minister David Laws and education…

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Move away and siblings will lose their place, say councils

Two London local authorities have amended the sibling priority rule from 2016, taking away the automatic entitlement to school…

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Nicky Phillips


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Free school site has ‘credible’ explosives threat

A free school says it is expecting to move “in the coming autumn” to a permanent site by an…

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Largest academy chain offloads eight schools

The largest academy chain in the country has transferred eight schools from its control, blaming their “geographic isolation”. The…

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Teachers undecided on who will be best for education

More than half of school leaders are undecided about which political party is best equipped to improve the education…

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Europe’s biggest arms firm BAE takes on failing academy

– Furness Academy in special measures since March 2012 – Campaigners uneasy about curriculum changes ’to suit needs’ The…

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School leaders in Trojan Horse region less likely to support promoting British values

School leaders in the region at the centre of the Trojan Horse scandal are less in favour of having to…

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Tories accuse Hunt of plot to sack 17,000 teachers

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has been accused by the Tories of plotting to sack up to 17,000 teachers…

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Nick Linford