Academies

Lilac Sky scandal: £3m of ‘contentious, irregular or improper’ payments revealed

Government investigation 'outcome' report comes eight years after intervention, but contains just three pages and few details

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Trust to close after losing £4m council legal row

Parallel Learning Trust's six schools are to be handed to other trusts but it's unclear who will pick up...

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John Dickens
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Big academy trusts see more kids leave their schools

Council schools also disproportionately take in vulnerable pupils from other schools, study finds

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Schools

EdCity: The community inclusion HQ with schools at its heart

Ark Schools teams up with Hammersmith and Fulham council to turn a run-down playground into a new community

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Academies

Does Labour have an academies problem?

DfE officials mull letting councils open schools again as they tackle two-tier system

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Q and A: Becky Francis on the problems her curriculum review is trying to solve

Schools Week speaks to curriculum review chair Becky Francis as a call for evidence is launched ...

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Trust boss: Time to review ‘archaic’ teaching hours limit

Lift Schools chief executive says 'we can't continue to rigidly count hours if we want to be seen as...

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Labour promises to publish Lilac sky academy scandal investigation – but won’t give a date

But it is keeping quiet on when the report, kept secret for years by the Conservatives, will surface

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John Dickens