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Plymouth Cast trust criticised over leadership and safeguarding failings

A trust that qualified to be a “system leader” under government plans to rank academy chains has been criticised...

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Try before you buy: the new way for multi-academy trusts to takeover schools

Academy trusts are taking struggling schools on loan for a year as part of a “try before you buy”...

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“Unusual” management plan for Parkfield Free School

A troubled free school has an “unusual” interim management structure in place as a takeover looms, although both the...

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Northern Powerhouse schools strategy: Halt standalone academies, and 11 other key findings

The government has today published its Northern Powerhouse Schools Strategy, led by Sir Nick Weller, chief executive of Dixons...

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Charge parents £500 to plug school funding gap, says leading head

State schools should consider emulating independent schools and “work for profit” by charging parents a “premium”, a leading headteacher...

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DfE ordered to publish landmark grammar school expansion application

The Department for Education has been ordered to release the application form lodged by a Kent grammar school before...

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Panel to hear appeal of ‘superhead’ Jo Shuter’s teaching ban next week

A government disciplinary panel will meet next week to decide whether to strike off a teaching ban for a...

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Teach languages for three hours per week, report demands

Schools should devote three hours of curriculum time per week to drag modern foreign languages out of “crisis”, a...

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Famed ‘turnaround’ Perry Beeches academy rated inadequate, Ofsted leak reveals

The flagship academy of a scandal-hit trust previously lauded by Prime Minister David Cameron has been rated as inadequate,...

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