School buildings

Community health hubs could use empty classrooms

LocatED chief 'seriously worried' closures due to demographic shifts could undo the work of the free schools programme

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Jack Dyson
Solutions

New AI platform aims to make sense of ‘myriad of data’

Open Education AI formally launches as a 'sector-led non-profit' and seeks to help schools bring together data from multiple...

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Jack Dyson
School funding

Trusts’ finances improve, but leaders brace for more rainy days

Some chains boost reserves by up to 900%, but others remain in deficit as leaders warn of tough times...

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Jack Dyson
Profile

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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Jack Dyson
News

RISE consultation pushed back to this term

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

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Jack Dyson
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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Jack Dyson
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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Jack Dyson
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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Jack Dyson