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‘I’m working in parts of England with white British populations where the parents don’t care,’ said former Chief Ofsted inspector, Sir Michael...
Read MoreSix turbulent years for free school in Tyne and Wear
Grindon Hall Christian School, Tyne and Wear, has had six turbulent...
Read More In 2016, English primary pupils were ‘the first pupils to take part in the PIRLS study since the Government’s education reforms in 2010,’ said...
Read More Capital costs for free schools opened in 2015 and later have not been published by the Department for Education (DfE).
The only free school...
Read More ‘Academy chains are disproportionately found amongst the top 20 of secondary school groups’, says the Education Policy Institute (EPI) in its...
Read MoreAn open meeting will be held on 20 June in Rugby, Warwickshire, to probe the sudden departure of Lois Reed, head of Ashlawn School, a bilateral...
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£1.5m was awarded to Leigh Academies Trust (LAT) when it took over Corelli College, a stand-alone converter academy in Greenwich run by Corelli...
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Press release from LSE:
The rapid conversion of state schools to academies since 2010 has resulted in the majority of such schools having...
Read more Competition from free schools contributed to financial difficulties which led to Corelli College, Greenwich, being transferred to Leigh Academies...
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I have received this response from The Sutton Trust to my article questioning the ‘attainment gap’.
Research by John Goldthorpe has shown...
Read moreAn open meeting will be held on 20 June in Rugby, Warwickshire, to probe the sudden departure of Lois Reed, head of Ashlawn School, a bilateral...
Read moreSix turbulent years for free school in Tyne and Wear
Grindon Hall Christian School, Tyne and Wear, has had six turbulent...
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Press release from LSE:
The rapid conversion of state schools to academies since 2010 has resulted in the majority of such schools having...
Read more Ofsted has now published inspection data for 2000-2005*, its Freedom of Information responses reveal.
This is welcome. I have long...
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By law, the Education Secretary must ‘take into account the impact on other schools when assessing Free school applications.’ But how do we...
Read more It’s dated March 2017 but it wasn’t published until today - the Ipsos-MORI analysis of the consultation about Schools that Work for Everyone which...
Read more Selective schools put social cohesion at risk ‘for no clear improvement in overall results’. That’s the conclusion of Durham University academics...
Read more ‘The tech gurus of Silicon Valley know that screens do not belong in the classroom’
Times leader 10 February 2018 (£)
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