Academies

Conflict questions as Labour moves to single regulator

Former official claims closing ESFA 'bad news for transparency and fairness', but others welcome the change

Jack Dyson
Freddie Whittaker
Academies, SEND

Schools look to SEND trusts over rising pupil need

Mainstream schools increasingly looking for 'specialist help' to deal with youngsters' needs

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Turnaround academy trust stops turnarounds (for now)

Outwood Grange moves away from 'central view' of education - and will even pause taking on the toughest schools

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Academies Enterprise Trust rebrands as Lift Schools

Move will match trust's 'grown ambitions', boss says

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Trust ditches job titles like CEO to ‘avoid top-down control’

Dixons will instead have more than 20 staff called 'school and college trust leaders'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Council loses court fight over falling rolls academy plan

High Court decision to throw out academisation decision means LA will 'have to close high-performing school instead'

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy trusts face improvement notices for ‘unsafe’ buildings

Academy trust handbook update also includes pause on electric car schemes and finance lease changes

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson
Academies

Academy transfer market cost £45m under Tories

More than 2,000 academies have been rebrokered since 2013

Schools Week Reporter
Schools Week Reporter
Academies

Academies: No MAT target, but mergers growing

Around one in five trusts which were running schools in 2019 are no longer in operation

Jack Dyson
Jack Dyson