Academies

Dr Jenny Blunden, CEO, Truro and Penwith Academy Trust

When Dr Jenny Blunden took charge at her Cornish trust, its three schools were ‘broken’. But in a fight...

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News

RISE consultation pushed back to this term

Government to begin 'informal engagement' over schools with low attainment

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Academies

Suspensions tumble as trust embraces ‘emotional intelligence’ 

Influential turnaround trust criticised for high suspensions bidding to cut exclusions and 'keep children in school'

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News

DfE wants to scrape real-time MIS data from schools

Department calls for tech companies to take part in trials to feed it data to inform policy

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Assessment

Photographers removed from GCSE assessment over website images

AQA deletes photographers' names from exam after images 'not appropriate for learners' found on their websites

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Academies

Call for ministers to settle debate over make-up of MATs

Debate comes as huge trust gives up two special schools and another says some are 'impossible' to take on

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News

No internal audit for trust with £8.4m deficit

Trouble-hit Arthur Terry Learning Partnership could receive a further £1 million in emergency funding

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School improvement

Impact of RISE teams to be published this year

But government will publish individual adviser objectives amid data protection concerns

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Academies

Lift academy trust set to hand over two special schools

The 58-school MAT believes both academies will be 'best supported within a specialist trust'

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