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‘Fraud’
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
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
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 […]
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 – […]
The government has handed out more than £8 million in emergency funding to cash-strapped schools in the past three years. Freedom of information figures show that since 2013-14, the Department for Education (DfE) has paid out a total of £8.2 million in deficit funding to help schools to balance their books. More than half (£4.6 […]
School place allocations, appeals and investigations processes are subject to a postcode lottery, Schools Week analysis show. Research by The Key, released yesterday, warned of the impending squeeze on secondary school places as schools face a 20 per cent increase in pupil numbers over the next eight years. In October, Schools Week reported how councils […]
Many schools are unsure of what to do when they discover unauthorised access to their computer systems – which can include students’ Facebook pranks. But all cyber crime should be reported to the right agencies — and often the police — says Jess Staufenberg in the final of her six-part series on computers in schools […]
A trust which provides ICT services in schools has apologised for putting “unnecessary pressure” on teachers to renew broadband internet deals amid a row over blocking emails from a competing company. The BBC has reported today that London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a consortium of London councils which negotiates services in 2,500 of the capital’s schools, […]
Scores of local education authorities did not record data or had no investigation policy for tackling admission fraud, despite high numbers of parents appealing their child’s offer of a school place. Analysis by Schools Week discovered that authorities more proactive in catching admission cheats tended to have fewer parents appealing and lower rates of places […]
