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Academy option reopened for sixth-form colleges

The government is to reopen the option for sixth-form colleges to academise – widening its pool of potential sponsors....

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Academy trust stands by chair embroiled in police probe

An expanding academy trust is backing its chair despite the government referring his giant private training provider to the...

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Sector leaders unite against T-level plans that would force pupils to wait a year for a retake

Sector leaders have urged Ofqual to reconsider its proposal to only allow T-level exams in the summer, as it...

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Damian Hinds to crack down on related-party transactions and academy CEO pay

The education secretary has promised to clamp down on academy trusts which hand out lucrative contracts to family and...

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Ethnic minorities and young people urged to volunteer as school governors

A new campaign to tackle the “historic underrepresentation” as governors of ethnic minorities and younger people has been launched....

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DfE takes action to force schools to follow the ‘Baker Clause’

The Department for Education has begun to intervene in schools which fail in their legal duty to allow training...

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School ditches UTC name as it joins multi-academy trust

Another struggling university technical college has denied distancing itself from the UTC brand, despite ditching its name and joining...

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UTC architect George Osborne says 14 start age ‘hasn’t worked’

George Osborne, one of the driving forces behind university technical colleges, would consider scrapping the starting age of 14...

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Isle of Wight Studio School to close in 2019

A studio school on the Isle of Wight is set to close next August after struggling to recruit enough...

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