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Frank Green is the Government’s schools commissioner. He leads the eight regional school commissioners, who are tasked with scrutinising academy performance and encourage collaboration. Mr Green took up the post in February 2014 and was previously chief executive of the Leigh Academies Trust for five years. In June 2013 he was awarded a CBE for his services […]
In Short
The leader of a parent group that unsuccessfully applied to open a free school in south London wants to know more about why their bid was rejected. In the eighth wave of free school applications, two competing groups submitted proposals for a new secondary school on the site of Dulwich Hospital. Catherine Rose (pictured), chair […]
News
On Monday, May 18, Schools Week editor Laura McInerney interviewed the education secretary, Nicky Morgan (audio recording available below). The interview was broadcast live during a Schools Week webinar titled ‘what does a Conservative government mean for education?’. The webinar, lasting for one hour, also included interviews with Joanthan Simons, head of education at Policy […]
As the dust settles on the outcome of the general election, education professionals now face the question as to what the next five years will hold for them. Schools Week editor Laura McInerney has put together an explainer as to what a Conservative majority government had promised, or not, here. Here, we have put […]
Conservative education ministers have all held on to their seats as their party heads to an overall majority in the general election. Education secretary Nicky Morgan led the Tory charge as she reclaimed her marginal seat in Loughborough. Morgan’s seat had long been touted as a potential scalp for Labour, but she eased to victory with a […]
The Conservatives will force year 7 pupils to resit their SAT exams if they don’t achieve a level 4 while at primary school. Is it a good idea? The answer isn’t as black and white as we may initially believe. Things that are true – Children who don’t get a level 4 in English […]
Opinion
Schools Week editor Laura McInerney has said she should have known our April Fool’s day prank story was a dud – because the idea of transparency was “simply too far-fetched”. A Schools Week story this morning revealing three new free schools had been named after leading politicians was an April Fool’s prank. The joke article […]
Last week, members of the government’s ‘assessment without levels’ commission were announced. Much was made of the fact that Nick Gibb, the minister in charge of the group, had said it would be ‘teacher-led’. However, there are no full-time teachers on the panel. The Department for Education defended itself by pointing to the three current […]
Today’s Policy Exchange ‘research’ conveniently released a bunch of positive facts about free schools on the exact same day that David Cameron announced 49 new ones and committed to opening 500 more. Well, fancy that. There have been endless back and forths about the correctness of the report. People seem to see what they want […]
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