News

Schools enact fewer cost-cutter savings as budgets tighten

Findings prompt warning 'no amount of advice can balance the books'

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Intervention on coasting schools ‘all over the place’

'The whole system’s full of inconsistencies'

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Jack Dyson
Academies

DfE gives £17m to academy trusts to ‘try before you buy’

Money was released to support maintained schools at risk of 'unexpected or imminent failure'

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Governance

DfE scraps governance support scheme two years after reforms

NGA 'disappointed' national leaders of governance scheme will be disbanded

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Jack Dyson
Academies

DfE fleshes out new academy trust quality descriptors

Government hopes guidance 'represents clear and ambitious vision for sector'

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Tom Rees named as new CEO of Ormiston Academies Trust

Former headteacher and Ambition Institute director announced as new MAT boss

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy trusts drive suspensions in areas DfE wants them to cut rates

Findings spark calls for government to rethink 'naïve' trust development statements

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Sheffield parents fight academy order as transparency rows reignited

DfE wants to transfer King Edward VII School to the Brigantia Learning Trust

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Jack Dyson
Academies

Ofsted praises MAT’s ‘life-changing improvements’ after damning report

Northern Education Trust becomes first MAT for seven years to have a second Ofsted summary evaluation

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