According to Schools Week, “More than 900 schools with successive less than ‘good’ Ofsted inspections face being forced into becoming academies or joining a new trust from September.”In fact there are 1,143 mainstream schools with successive “less than good” inspections and 844... Read more

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According to Schools Week, “More than 900 schools with successive less than ‘good’ Ofsted inspections face being forced into becoming academies or...

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This is the last article I will post on Local Schools Network.  It’s time for me to stop chasing stories about the goings-on in...

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Two heads of secondary schools in Ellesmere Port told their MP, Justin Madders, they had concerns about ‘the apparent...

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The tribunal which forced the Department for Education to release documents about The Education Fellowship Trust has wider...

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Neighbours of Coombe Wood School, a secondary free school opened in September 2018, have become increasingly fed up with...

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There is a discrepancy of £1.6m between what the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) says it must repay the Education and...

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Fourteen of the top fifteen schools based on Progress 8 scores have one thing in common: they have few low-achieving pupils. ...

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The claim of ‘insufficient academic pupils’ is being used to explain missing exam scores from Harris academies in a recently...

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Turner Free School, one of four schools run by Turner Schools, has ‘exceptional scholars’, an ‘amazing PFTA’, ‘amazing faculty...

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It’s essential for young people to be able to talk to ‘providers of technical education and apprenticeships’ in school if they...

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REAch2, the largest primary-only academy trust, has received a minded to terminate letter re Sprites Primary Academy, Ipswich,...

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The education secretary Gavin Williamson rightly defends freedom of speech on university campuses in a press release...

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