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Parental backlash forces academy trust to abandon school closure

England’s largest academy chain has abandoned plans to close a town’s only secondary school after a backlash from parents....

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One in 10 Kent schools don’t have a headteacher

A tenth of Kent schools have been forced to begin the new academic year without a headteacher in place,...

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Top universities reluctant to sponsor struggling schools

The UK’s most prestigious universities are turning down chances to sponsor struggling schools through the government’s academies programme, research...

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Mixed-ability classes barely exist in schools, researchers find

Teaching pupils in mixed-ability groups is so unpopular that researchers struggled to find enough examples to complete a recent...

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St Olave’s u-turn on pupil exclusions

A grammar school ejecting pupils in the middle of their A-levels has backtracked on its severe exclusions policy, saying...

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Pioneering London academy absorbed by Harris Federation

One of the country’s first ever academies has been taken over by a major London academy chain, after it...

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Councils demand powers to expand academies as pupil bulge hits secondary schools

Almost half of English council areas will face a shortfall in secondary school places within five years unless they...

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The four key trends in the 2017 KS2 primary test results

Provisional results of the primary school key stage 2 SATs tests broken down at local authority and regional level...

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DfE launches £100k tender to independently review complaints against Ofsted

The Department for Education has this week started the hunt for an organisation to review complaints made against Ofsted....

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