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Ofsted email scam asks people to ‘confirm’ Paypal details

Ofsted has warned the schools community to be vigilant over phishing emails purporting to be from the organisation. The watchdog issued guidance today after it had been notified some people had received spam emails which appeared to have been sent from an ofsted.gov.uk email account. The warning from Ofsted, issued on their official website, states: […]

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Hundreds of schools use Uber-style apps to hire supply teachers

Hundreds of schools are using apps to employ supply teachers in a bid to cut out crippling recruitment agency fees. But they should be “cautious” about using the online technology as its lack of face-to-face verification could lead to fake teachers heading into the classroom, say some union leaders. A Schools Week investigation has found […]

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Hand back school admissions control to councils, says OSA chief

Plans to strip academies of their school admission powers and hand them back to councils should be sped up, the chief schools adjudicator has said. It comes as the admissions watchdog’s new annual report reveals local authorities have reported hundreds of potentially unlawful arrangements. The Office of the Schools Adjudicator’s (OSA) report stated that 686 […]

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Schools warned over cold-calling ‘ransomware’ scam

Fraudsters posing as government officials are contacting schools in attempts to hold important computer files to ransom, police have said. Action Fraud has issued an alert following “numerous reports” of attempts to inflict ‘ransomware’ – which encrypts important files until a ransom is paid – on school computer systems using cold calling and confidence trickery. […]

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DfE told its accounts lack ‘truth and fairness’ for second year running

The government’s spending watchdog has issued an adverse opinion on the Department for Education’s accounts for the second year running. The National Audit Office said the DfE group’s financial statements have a level of error and uncertainty that is “material and pervasive”. An adverse opinion is extremely rare, and shows that accounts are not a […]

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Beware the tightrope-walker’s error: it can get to us all

One summer day in 1974, Phillippe Petit walked on a high-wire 400 metres (1,350 feet) above New York City on a cable running between the Twin Tower buildings. He fumbled in his last moments, but lived to tell the tale having been made aware that tightrope walkers often fall in their last few steps. In […]

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DfE to open up academy finances in transparency drive

The government is set to lift a veil of secrecy over academy spending in a transparency drive that will reveal reported frauds, and uncover who the highest-paid chief executives are, how much they are paid and how much trusts spend on consultants. The education select committee this week published a “dry run” of a new-look […]

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The 8 most important findings from the government’s new-look academies report

The Education Committee has today published a “dry run” of how the Department for Education plans to report finances in the academy sector. It reveals more than 100 academy chiefs are paid more than £150,000 – with two staff receiving bumper pay-offs of up to £200,000. The dry run, covering the 2014-15 financial year, has […]

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Flagship free school principal jailed for fraud

The principal of a flagship free school has been jailed for five years for his part in defrauding the government out of £69,000. Sajid Husain Raza, his sister Shabana Hussain, also a teacher at the school, and the school’s former financial director, Daud Khan, were previously convicted by jury of a total of ten charges […]

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