Nick Linford | Schools Week

Campaign launched by rugby hero to tackle bullying in secondary schools

Rugby legend Gareth Thomas (pictured) has launched a national campaign to reduce school bullying. The former Wales captain and Grand Slam winner will lead the new campaign, Balls to Bullying, by visiting schools up and down Britain in the coming months. Created by recruitment agency Prospero Teaching, he will support teachers in helping youngsters settle […]

Academy win national award and high praise for their ‘axcellent’ newspaper

A Lincolnshire academy has been named as the winner of a newspaper award and received high praise from a well-known children’s author. The Axholme Academy pupils were described as “bright” and “confident” by Alex Rider series’ author Anthony Horowitz. The school, in Crowle, was announced winner of the First News Secondary School Newspaper of the […]

School in Cornwall ‘delighted’ with redeveloped sport facilities

A Cornish academy has completed a £1m building project. The Camborne Science and International Academy (CSIA) has redeveloped the sports facilities and modernised existing school buildings. It was granted funding of £120,000 from Sport England and £880,000 from the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund. The £1m project over the summer was finished for the start of […]

Adonis calls for specialist 14 to 19 provision ‘like the Brit School’ in every region of the country

In an exclusive interview for Schools Week’s first issue, Andrew Adonis reaffirmed his belief that University Technical Colleges – vocational schools for 14 to 19-year-olds – ought to be extended across the country. Asked what the government’s future policy priorities ought to be, Labour peer Adonis said: “It must be about the forgotten 50%. We […]

Trojan Horse investigator claims the fear of Ofsted inspection put off potential whistleblowers

Potential Trojan Horse whistleblowers were put off from coming forward in fear of their comments sparking an Ofsted inspection, it has been claimed. At the Education Select Committee’s second meeting on Tuesday after the inquiry into the alleged plot by hardline Islamists to take control of schools in Birmingham, Ian Kershaw told MPs he believed […]

Birmingham school under investigation for use of funds MPs told

A council cabinet member has told MPs that a Birmingham school is “subject to investigation” over money being used by the trust from which it rents buildings. In June Birmingham City Council replaced the governors of Al-Hijrah School, a voluntary-aided school, with an Interim Executive Board (IEB) after concerns about its finances were raised when an £889,000 […]

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Mark Dawe, chief executive, OCR

A former principal, chartered accountant and civil servant who pioneered online procurement for colleges and the Skills4Life initiative, Mark Dawe already has an impressive career under his belt. And at the age of 46, with a cycle challenge involving four of the French Alps on the horizon, it would appear the sky really is the […]

Latest figures suggest a fall in complaints about school admissions

School admission complaints appear to have fallen, new figures shared with Schools Week show, despite the start of a squeeze on primary places. Complaints to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) for local authority maintained schools, and to the Education Funding Agency (EFA) for academies, totaled 1,015 in the period April 2013 to March 2014, down on around […]