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Professor Becky Francis gives us her view on academies and the new “coasting schools” definition, in light of the...
It can be daunting, but academy trustees are legally bound to understand the financial position of their school. Read on ....
Yesterday, Schools Week reported on analysis by Education Datalab which showed almost 1,200 schools would be defined as “coasting”,...
The Government has been forced to stop the academy conversion of a school after opposition from a single staff member. It will now...
There are the challenges of securing sufficient places, teachers and funding, but with a majority government and an experienced...
About one in five state funded schools in England is now an academy, and more than half of those...
The DfE cannot compel academies to share their land, but changes to funding agreements will make it difficult to...
Having increasingly ‘freed’ schools from local government, it seems they still need to be monitored. But who should do...
The looming general election will regulate the conduct of public bodies, including the DfE, local authorities – and schools....
