Academies

GAG pooling transparency calls as trust takes 20% from schools

'Schools within the trust are having significant amounts of income retained centrally'

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Jack Dyson
School buildings

Repair grants fall again despite ‘collapsing’ school estate

Concerns only schools with 'most urgent condition need' will receive repairs cash, as number of greenlit projects tumbles again...

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Rise in £200k academy trust CEOs as pay ‘stagnation’ ends

Three more leaders now earn over £300,000, our annual investigation finds

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy converters can’t get £25k grant if they become a SAT

But trust body flags concern over capacity to manage 'spike' in applications before change comes into force

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Jack Dyson
Recruitment

Teacher training top-up courses slashed as DfE cuts costs

Funding to provide subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses cut to just five subjects from next month

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Jack Dyson
School buildings

Warning sounded as schools not ready to exit PFI deals

Sector leaders fear schools will be left to 'shoulder the storm'

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy trust development statements boost decline of standalone schools

Leaders fear smaller academy trusts 'aren’t being allowed to grow' in England’s left-behind areas

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Jack Dyson
Ofsted

Keegan: ‘I’d have punched Ofsted inspector’

Education secretary makes claim after hearing about 'rude' inspectors at school

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Jack Dyson
MAT central teams

Trust rejects claims from head who resigned over ‘high’ top slice

Heads tells parents in letter his 'significant concerns' over 'how trust operates at its top levels'

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Jack Dyson