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Chris Husbands and Mary Beard top Queen’s Birthday Honours list for education services

A leading academic and a renowned classicist are at the top the list of those recognised in the Queen’s...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: Bolton Wanderers Free School’s £380k deficit

A free school linked to a former premier league football club had a deficit of more than £380,000 when...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Ministers’ school visits show ‘ideological obsession’ with academies

The education secretary has visited more than twice as many academies and free schools than maintained ones – and...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Doomed Perry Beeches academy trust had a £1.5 million deficit

The controversial Perry Beeches academy trust had a £1.5 million deficit in the year before it was wound up,...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Collaborative Academies Trust will lose all but one of its schools

Eight of the nine schools run by the Essex-based Collaborative Academies Trust are to be moved to new sponsors....

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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NAO: Carillion made big profits from its work at schools

The collapsed construction firm Carillion made profits of up to 15 per cent on its work for schools in...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE to review impact of Baker Clause careers duty

The impact of a new law which forces schools to allow training organisations the chance to speak to pupils...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Inspectors praise ‘considerable improvements’ at turnaround school, but slam sponsor for lack of support

Leaders of a school run by the doomed Education Fellowship Trust have been praised for “considerable improvements” which raised...

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Freddie Whittaker
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90% of heads support compulsory PSHE lessons

There is “overwhelming” support in schools for the introduction of compulsory PSHE lessons, according to a new report from...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker