Academies

AET risks losing academy over AP failures and discrimination

Ofsted said prominent trust's school failed to do necessary checks on AP settings or whether pupils attended, risking harm

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Academies

Academy trusts get £21m in non-repayable bailouts

The Academies Enterprise Trust received £2 million, one of more than 80 trusts bailed out in a single year

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Former RSC Rebecca Boomer-Clark is new Academies Enterprise Trust CEO

Former regional schools commissioner Rebecca Boomer-Clark has been appointed to lead the Academies Enterprise Trust, one of England’s largest...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Opinion

Removing parent governors will be seen as power grab to stifle dissent

Three years ago the then education secretary Justine Greening announced she was dropping her predecessor’s proposal to remove the...

John Dickens
EMMA KNIGHTS
News

Parental backlash forces academy trust to abandon school closure

England’s largest academy chain has abandoned plans to close a town’s only secondary school after a backlash from parents....

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson