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Amarjit Cheema, chief executive of the Perry Hall Multi-Academy Trust

Amarjit Cheema is not a “top down” academy boss who believes in dictating how her schools or communities should…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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A look inside the only grade 1 UTC

If Lord Kenneth Baker could take a blueprint for the beleaguered university technical college (UTC) and multiply it across…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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St Peter’s Catholic Voluntary Academy, Middlesbrough

Zahida Hammond, headteacher at St Peter’s Catholic Voluntary Academy, an 11-16 school in Middlesbrough, looks bewildered when I tell…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
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Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, headteacher, Anderton Park primary school, Birmingham

Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson’s desk in Anderton Park primary is strewn with cards from well-wishers across the world. A bunch of…

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Luke Sibieta, director, Sibieta Economics of Education

One figure has been bandied about more than most in the school funding debate of the past couple of…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Features, Politics

Interview: Robert Halfon, chair of the education select committee

When I ask Robert Halfon, the chair of the education committee, to name the witness that has affected him…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter


Features, News

The Policy Debate

Who should make policy, politicians or educationists? We invited Jonathan Simons, director at Public First, and Amanda Goodall, senior…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Features

Martyn Oliver, chief executive of the Outwood Grange Academies Trust

OGAT, saviour of many schools in the north, can’t seem to shake criticism of its strict behaviour sanctions and…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Features

Emma Hardy, MP for Hull West and Hessle

Emma Hardy, MP for Hull West and Hessle Emma Hardy may be a relative newbie in Parliament, but she’s…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
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Beccy Earnshaw, director, Voice 21

Oracy hit it big on the education agenda earlier this year when Nick Gibb unexpectedly dropped it into a…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Features

The academy trust that’s run like an edtech start-up

XP and XP East sit like tiny pods on a giant lot in a Doncaster retail park. I’ve just…

Catherine Murray
Catherine Murray
Features

Ian Bauckham, CEO, Tenax Schools Trust

Ian Bauckham is probably one of the few people to have talked explicitly about sex with Department for Education…

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter

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DfE threatened with legal action over ‘unlawful’ Covid attendance rules

The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and…

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures

Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger