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Fraudsters’ scams cost schools thousands

Schools have been scammed out of thousands of pounds after their phone systems were hacked and calls diverted to pricey premium-rate numbers. Schools Week can reveal that schools in at least two different regions of England called in police to investigate up to five-figure phone bills last year. The scam was among scores of frauds […]

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Girls receive less financial education than boys

Girls are receiving significantly less financial education than boys, a report today reveals. Only 36 per cent of girls currently study personal finance in comparison to 45 per cent of boys the same age, despite the topic being compulsory at GCSE level. The figures revealed by the Young Persons’ Money Index, published by financial education […]

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Emma Hardy’s top education blogs of the week 11 May

The 39 steps By @mikercameron There was little relief at the end of what has been one of my most exhausting and emotionally draining weeks as other educationists widely echoed my shock and pain at the election result. One of the many things that angered me was the number of left-wing “purists” despairing at the […]

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Former Kings Science Academy trio set for trial next year

The founder of one the country’s first free schools and two of its senior members of staff are set to go on trial for fraud offences. Sajid Hussain Raza, the founder and former principal of Kings Science Academy in Bradford, appeared at Leeds Crown Court today, charged with nine offences. Mr Raza, 42, of Spring Gardens, Bradford, […]

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Kings Science Academy trio appear in court charged with fraud offences

The former headteacher and two senior members of staff at one of the country’s first free schools have today appeared in court charged with fraud offences. Sajid Hussain Raza, the founder and former principal of Kings Science Academy in Bradford, was charged last month with nine offences. It follows a police investigation into alleged financial […]

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Former free school head charged with fraud

A free school’s former principal has vowed to clear his name after he was charged with multiple fraud offences. Sajid Raza, founder of the Kings Science Academy in Bradford, was last week charged with three offences of fraud by abuse of position, three offences of false accounting, two offences of obtaining a money transfer by […]

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Leaked document claims David Cameron will propose 153 new free schools

More than 100 new free schools could open under a Conservative government, a leaked announcement by the prime minister claims. According to reports by the Guardian and The Mirror, David Cameron is expected to reveal in a speech on Monday that if the party is re-elected after May’s election it would open 153 free schools […]

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Founder of free school hailed by David Cameron charged with string of fraud offences

The former principal of one of the country’s first free schools has been charged with a number of fraud offences. Sajid Raza, founder of the Kings Science Academy in Bradford, has been charged with three offences of fraud by abuse of position, three offences of false accounting, two offences of obtaining a money transfer by deception, […]

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Ofsted report of crisis-hit school reveals children running around corridors and assaults on staff

A damning Ofsted report has branded a crisis-hit academy as “dysfunctional and unsafe” – revealing “verbal abuse of staff is common with some physically assaulted”. The special measures monitoring report into St Aldhelm’s Academy, in Poole, Dorset – which lost £1.2m after being targeted by a fraud scam in 2013 – was published today. The […]

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