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If you can pass the test you’re in. But who benefits?

The grammar schools proposal could be described as a “great right-wing fraud”, says David Blunkett… pretending you are delivering to the many what you know you can only deliver to the few Next month I will take part in a gathering at Ruskin College, Oxford, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a seminal speech on education […]

Opinion

Free school GCSE results reveal highs … and lows

Free schools with fledgling GCSE cohorts have hit highs – and lows – in their overall performance in this summer’s exams. West London free school, Bristol free school, Dixons Kings academy and Tauheedal boys’ school all posted their first results today, having opened as free schools in 2011 and 2012. At Tauheedal 95 per cent […]

Exam results, News

High court battle reveals ploy to make profit from running state schools

A high court showdown between a former Ofsted chair and the consultancy firm where she worked has revealed details of how a private company planned to make profits from running state-funded academies and free schools. Zenna Atkins, chair of Ofsted from 2006 to 2010, has been ordered to pay damages to her former employer, Wey […]

News

Ofsted text scam warning

Ofsted has warned the education community to be vigilant after a childminder was targeted by fraudsters in a text scam. The education watchdog issued guidance on Wednesday after a childminder had received a text from someone posing as Ofsted and asking her to call a mobile phone number. However when the victim called the line she […]

News

Flagship free school trio found guilty of defrauding Department for Education

The principal, financial director and teacher at a flagship free school have been found guilty of defrauding the Department for Education (DfE) out of around £150,000. A jury today convicted Sajid Husain Raza, 43, Daud Khan, 44, and Shabana Hussain, 40, of fraudulently obtaining the cash from government grants to set up Kings Science Academy, […]

News

Andrew Sabisky, political forecaster

In a week in which two shadow education secretaries resigned, the incumbent secretary angled to run the country, and no one seemed to know if the education white paper was binned or on ice, it was reassuring to meet Andrew Sabisky, a 24-year-old polymath who is edging his way to becoming a “super forecaster” – […]

Features

Founder of flagship free school and two staff treated public money “as their own” in alleged £150,000 fraud

The principal, financial director and teacher at a flagship free school defrauded the government out of £150,000 and treated public money “as their own”, a court heard. Sajid Husain Raza, 43, Daud Khan, 44, and Shabana Hussain, 40, are charged with fraudulently obtaining the cash from Department for Education (DfE) grants to set up Kings […]

News

Superhead and former Morgan adviser banned from teaching over £1m contract to friend

The former superhead of a Hackney schools federation and former advisor to Nicky Morgan has been banned from teaching after he was found to have awarded a £1 million IT contract to a “close friend”. Greg Wallace, executive principal at the Best Start Federation in East London, admitted to various allegations, including that he failed […]

News

Centre for High Performance: The faces behind school gaming research

Last month the Centre for High Performance – a company created by two academics – received more than 20,000 messages. Unfortunately, most of them were hate mail. Things looked bad. It was all because a summary document, which was based on a working paper by the two academics and two other colleagues, went viral – […]

Features