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Free school to open above Lidl store after 3 years ‘in portacabins’

A primary school will re-open above a Lidl supermarket in a move experts say shows the “huge need” for...

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Jess Staufenberg
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EBacc ‘increases arts subject entries’ but teacher numbers fall

The EBacc has prompted a rise in pupils taking at least one arts subject at GCSE – but the number...

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Jess Staufenberg
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More multi-academy trusts naming their own feeder primaries

Multi-academy leaders are more frequently naming primary schools within their trust as feeder schools for their secondaries, despite little...

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Jess Staufenberg
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School tells staff to switch off ‘non-essential’ lights to save money

A school has told staff to “switch off non-essential” lights – even when pupils are in school – to...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Termly safeguarding audits would help heads ‘sleep at night’

A specialist body of safeguarding officers should be set up within or separately from Ofsted because inspections are “too...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Sponsored academies lose more pupils after takeovers

More pupils leave schools when they become sponsored academies than when they are under local authority control, a new...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Government to rebroker Manchester free schools founded by charity boss

Two free schools in Greater Manchester will be re-brokered to new multi-academy trusts after one was placed into special...

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Jess Staufenberg
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Multi-academy trusts swap data systems for Progress 8

New performance measures such as Progress 8 have led some multi-academy trusts to move away from traditional data-system providers....

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Jess Staufenberg
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John Murphy, CEO, Oasis Community Learning

John Murphy, weight 16½ stone, chief of a multi-academy trust founded by a Baptist minister, can karate kick a...

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg