Academies

Academy scandal reports will no longer name offenders

Reports are now 'outcomes' of investigations, as opposed to investigation reports

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

RISE improvement advisers: ‘best of the best’ or ‘clipboard carrying bureaucrats’?

Who are the government's new improvement advisers, and how will they operate?

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Schools Bill

Oh Lord: Peers now take aim at schools bill

Former Tory ministers warn of 'get out of jail card' for 'incompetent' school leaders

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Unions

Heads’ union pushes for academies’ right to rejoin councils

In an interview with Schools Week, heads' leader also urges government not to 'flinch' in the face of 'soft...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
School funding

Councils take up to 9% of school budgets for core services

Findings challenge claims trusts charge their schools more for services away from classrooms

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Strikes

NEU backs strikes ‘blueprint’ to ‘take on’ large MATs

Conference also votes to aim to win improved working conditions and 'undermine the notion of academy freedoms'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Academies

Schools have 28% of budgets shaved off by academy trust ‘GAG pooling’

Unions are now demanding greater scrutiny over how trusts pool budgets, as schools await promised guidance

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Governors told to ‘resign’ if they don’t back Catholic mega MAT plans

And another diocese tells governors they could only pass compliance checks with evidence they supported academisation

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Former MAT boss cleared of historic child sex offence allegations

The ex-'orphan school' trust boss found not guilty on all seven counts he faced, following a trial at Leeds...

Lydia Chantler-Hicks
Lydia Chantler-Hicks