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 apps and tools
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 ahead
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 against low aspirations, the CEO has added successful schools and continues to battle for them as budgets remain squeezed
RISE consultation pushed back to this term Government to begin ‘informal engagement’ over schools with low attainment
Suspensions tumble as trust embraces ‘emotional intelligence’ Influential turnaround trust criticised for high suspensions bidding to cut exclusions and ‘keep children in school’
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
Photographers removed from GCSE assessment over website images AQA deletes photographers’ names from exam after images ‘not appropriate for learners’ found on their websites
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
No internal audit for trust with £8.4m deficit Trouble-hit Arthur Terry Learning Partnership could receive a further £1 million in emergency funding