Schools
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Many DfE cost-cutters couldn’t find schools savings, survey reveals

School resource management advisers have been visiting schools since 2018

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Tom Belger
Academies

Revealed: The winners of RSC advisory board elections

Results were delayed by more than two months, after a mid-election boundary review

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Tom Belger
Schools
PFI means £867.5k a year on an empty school.
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PFI firm makes millions as taxpayers pay £870,000 a year for empty school

Wirral council faces eye-watering annual PFI bills despite Kingsway Academy lying empty since 2018

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Tom Belger
Schools
The DfE will help all PFI schools handle expiry.
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DfE to help schools on PFI handover – but guidance ‘too late’

Government guidance admits hundreds of projects risk 'disruption' and paying twice for repairs when PFI deals eventually expire

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Tom Belger
Schools

The head taking on PFI firms over new school ‘riddled’ with leaks

Newman RC College held back funds from PFI firms and threatened legal action against a council over repeated building...

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Tom Belger
Schools

Nadhim Zahawi speech at ASCL conference: 5 things we learned

The minister vowed an NTP shakeup, EEF reviews of teacher development and cash for strong trusts and overseas teachers...

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Tom Belger
Covid

Oak academy to move into public hands with ‘no privatisation’ and independence condition

Education secretary will say he’s committed to building on the ‘by teachers, for teachers’ approach behind its launch’

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Tom Belger
Academies

Catholic trust pilot in disarray after academy U-turn and pay gaffe

The DfE faces calls to apologise after a legal challenge halted its academisation push with Hallam diocese, whose schools...

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Tom Belger
Schools

Warning over ‘cruel’ school funding ‘have and have nots’

MPs urge government to 'thoroughly investigate' regional divides

Tom Belger
Tom Belger