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Revealed: Oak bosses’ bid for £41m payday

Oak bosses would have been in line for a £41 million payday under their preferred proposal for the future...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Oak Academy scrambles to secure future as privatisation plan pulled

Oak National Academy’s future set-up has still to be finalised just weeks before government funding runs out – after...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Editor asks: Baroness Berridge, academies minister

Conservative peer Baroness Berridge was appointed academies minister in February last year, a month before Covid-19 forced  nationwide school...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Speed read: Williamson’s 7 policies to revive the academies drive

Gavin Williamson has announced a raft of new policies today that he hopes will push towards the government’s “vision”...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

‘Try before you buy’ academy offer – what you need to know

Trusts running schools on service-level agreements has long featured in the sector. What’s new today is that the government...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Opinion

It turns out teachers aren’t being trusted on grades

On Thursday evening, Ofqual sneaked out a major and fundamental shift in the quality assurance process for this summer’s...

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DfE’s ‘orphan’ school trust takes financial hit as Covid scuppers expansion

The ‘bad bank’ academy trust set up by government to turn around orphan schools has been hit by cashflow...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

ITT market review proposals will be put out to public consultation

The government will run a public consultation on the proposals of its controversial teacher training market review before they...

John Dickens
John Dickens
News

Trust ‘ready and able’ to take over ‘orphan’ school in limbo for TEN years

A regional schools commissioner is “hopeful” she has found an academy trust that is “ready and able” to take...

John Dickens
John Dickens