Two heads of secondary schools in Ellesmere Port told their MP, Justin Madders, they had concerns about ‘the apparent...
Read moreWhen a local authority school is judged inadequate, a directive academy order (DAO) is issued. This means the school must close...
Read moreThe National Audit Office has criticised the support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in...
Read moreWriting in The Times , the new education secretary Gavin Williamson says he wants ‘more free schools to shake things up and do...
Read moreNutrition standards in schools may not be met if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, some councils warn. The BBC reported that these local...
Read moreFour University Technical Colleges (UTCs), schools providing technical education for 14-19 year olds, changed hands in financial...
Read morePayments made by Collective Spirit Free School (CSFS), Oldham, and Manchester Creative Studio (MCS) to a related party,...
Read moreWhen Royal Greenwich UTC failed to recruit enough students and was judged to require improvement, it closed in 2016 for a ‘fresh...
Read moreSix UTCs received exceptional grants from the Department for Education (DfE) to stabilise their finances in the financial year...
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Check your knowledge of the goings-on in education in England during 2018
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Many struggle to recruit pupils, ten have closed
The University Technical College (UTC) initiative is failing, an...
Read moreThis is the title of a Guardian article which appeared on 11 September 2018. The following (in italics) are excerpts.
Major study of 1.8...
Read moreHackney Downs, a comprehensive boys’ school, was shut in 1995 by Tory education secretary Gillian Shepherd following an unsuccessful campaign to...
Read moreSince I published this article I have received a lot of email correspondence from internationally respected academics. The general thrust of this...
Read moreThis article shows that the East Asian education systems that come out at the top of the PISA rankings sink to the bottom half of the table when...
Read moreJust five days ago, Schools Week reported that a fourth undersubscribed University Technical College, UTC Lancashire, is to close just two years...
Read morePhasing out private and grammar schools in the UK is essential if the increasingly cross party call for ‘equality of opportunity for all’ is...
Read moreBarnfield Business and Enterprise Studio is to close, Schools Week reports. A simple enough statement, it would seem. But not for anyone who’s...
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