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Academy trusts will appear in January’s league tables

Next year, the public will be able to see for themselves how well multi-academy trusts are doing in the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Revealed: The two schools ‘double-bounced’ between sponsors

Crawshaw Academy and Wigan UTC are the only two schools to have been rebrokered twice since records began, the...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Campaigners launch judicial review proceedings to stop collection of pupil nationality data

Campaigners seeking to halt schools from collecting data on pupil nationality and country of birth will today request permission...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Schools fail to ‘obtain’ nationality data on quarter of pupils

Schools failed to obtain nationality data for a quarter of their pupils this year, indicating a significant resistance to...

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Freddie Whittaker
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A third of EAL pupils are fluent in English

A third of pupils with English as an additional language are fluent in it, according to new data from...

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Freddie Whittaker
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DfE to pay £10m for checks on school leader qualifications

The government is looking for a company to check the quality of new national professional qualifications for teachers, and...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Manchester Creative Studio School faces closure

A studio school in Manchester plagued with financial and performance problems since it opened in 2014 faces closure after...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Floreat and Avanti Trust seek to merge

An academy trust founded by a minister is considering a merger with another chain after it admitted that it...

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Freddie Whittaker
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Carter and Agnew at education committee: 6 things we learned

The parliamentary education committee spent almost two hours grilling the national schools commissioner Sir David Carter and the academies...

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Freddie Whittaker