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Grammar school that forced out A-level pupils slammed in damning inquiry report

A south London grammar school which forced pupils out at the end of year 12 because of their AS-level grades “put the institution above the pupils”, an independent inquiry into practices at the school has found. The probe, commissioned by Bromley Council, found St Olave’s in Orpington unlawfully prevented pupils from continuing into their second […]

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Food, fraud and going abroad: What’s on Ofsted’s £1m credit card bill?

Ofsted has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on meals in restaurants, nights in hotels, overseas travel and in bars, according to its credit card bill. The watchdog has today published data on the £1,127,859.92 it spent between January 2015 and February 2017 using the ePurchasing Card Solution process, which allows public sector bodies to […]

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MATs are misusing public money while Ofsted and RSCs bicker, union leader warns

Multi-academy trusts are getting away with “the fraudulent misuse of public money” while Ofsted and schools commissioners fight a turf war, a union leader has warned. Dr Mary Bousted, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, used her speech to the ATL conference this morning to call for the resurrection of the “public […]

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Mary Bousted speech to ATL conference 2018: The full text

Dr Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the ATL, delivered a powerful speech to the union’s last conference in Liverpool this morning. Here’s what she said.   I feel quite emotional right now. It is sixteen years since I first made first my speech to an ATL conference. And as this is the last speech […]

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Police organisation teams up with NAHT to beat recruitment fraud

The NAHT union is teaming up with a Metropolitan Police website to tackle recruitment fraud. Schools will be told about an organisation providing free advice about job scams to which leaders can report any fraud problems. A Schools Week investigation last march found hundreds of schools are using apps to employ supply teachers, but union […]

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Schools lose £145k to fraudsters posing as heads in new scam

Fraudsters impersonating headteachers have managed to con schools across the country out of tens of thousands of pounds in the latest scam to target the education system. Figures from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau show that since last September, 48 schools have reported the scam, most of them in December and January. Of those, 12 […]

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How school leaders can be sucked into dodgy dealings

Before I became a teacher I briefly worked for KPMG, one of the world’s largest auditors. It was shortly after the fall of Enron, itself one of the world’s largest accountancy firms, after its senior leaders were discovered up to their necks in fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy, among other things. The fall of Enron […]

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London headteacher suspended after fraud arrest

The headteacher of a Catholic boys’ school in London has been suspended after he was arrested on suspicion of fraud. Tom Mannion, 74, was arrested at St Aloysius’ College in Archway last week, but parents were reportedly only informed yesterday, according to the Islington Gazette. St Aloysius’ College, a local authority-maintained Roman Catholic boys school, […]

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Teaching misconduct: Sexual impropriety dominates lifetime bans

Three quarters of teachers banned from the profession for life last year were excluded for sexual misconduct – with the remainder committing fraud and exam malpractice, or intentionally misleading job applications. Schools Week analysis of the 135 hearings carried out by the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) between September 1, 2016 and August […]

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