Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross

The best local authorities should be allowed to take schools back from underperforming multi-academy trusts, according to a leading think-tank. Academies do not perform better than maintained schools, and the government must find a better way to handle poor performance, the Education Policy Institute’s latest report has found. The EPI wants to give local authorities […]

Academy trusts are “disproportionately represented” among the lowest-performing primary schools groups, according to new research by the Education Policy Institute. The EPI compared school performance and pupil improvement at every academy trust and local authority in England. The research, which looked at performance at key stages two and four, took into account characteristics such as the […]

There is no difference in the performance of multi-academy trusts and groups of local authority schools, a new report from the Education Policy Institute has found. The report, which compared school performance and pupil improvement at every trust and local authority in England at both key stage two and four, makes a number of recommendations to […]

An academy trust that caters for some of the most disadvantaged pupils in Salford is to close and have all four of its schools rebrokered to new sponsors. The Salford Academy Trust was founded by Salford City College, the University of Salford and Salford City Council in 2012. The trust runs two primary schools: Dukesgate Primary Academy and […]

A report into the ability of children to identify so-called “fake news” wants teachers to get more training, resources and time to help tackle pupils’ “dangerous lack” of critical literacy skills. The study, which warned that just two per cent of pupils have the skills to understand whether a news story is false, revealed that […]

An organisation and two individuals have been charged with running an unregistered school. The Al-Istiqamah Learning Centre Limited, based in Ealing in west London, has been charged with conducting an unregistered independent educational institution, contrary to the Education and Skills Act 2008, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed today. Nacerdine Talbi, 46, has also been charged with […]

Primary schools in London and Luton are being invited to take part in a major new study into what impact policies to improve air quality have on pupils’ health. The Children’s Health in London and Luton (CHILL) study, funded by the National Institute for Health Research, will monitor 3,000 primary school pupils over four years […]

MI5 has no plans to share sensitive intelligence information with teachers in a bid to combat terrorism despite reports to the contrary, the Home Office has confirmed. Instead, the job of teachers in fighting extremism will for the moment remain “limited to the important role they already play in all forms of safeguarding”. Sajid Javid, […]