Academies

When a local authority school is judged inadequate, a directive academy order (DAO) is issued. This means the school must close...

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The notorious SchoolsCompany Trust was stripped of its academies in 2018 after the discovery of serious failings at three...

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Five letters warning academy trusts that their funding may be stopped following inadequate judgements were published yesterday. I reported on...

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The Academies Enterprise Trust, one of England’s largest multi-academy trust with 61 academies, has received a second letter...

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Academy trusts must ‘control the narrative’ which has been dominated by opponents of academization, says the Confederation of...

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The Learning Link Multi Academy Trust which runs four primary schools in Dudley has been served with a Financial Notice to...

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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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The Department of Education ‘does not anticipate’ receiving the independent investigative report into the former executive...

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‘MAT performance data should not be used to infer performance of the MAT system as a whole,’ the Department for Education says...

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The Department for Education is dragging its feet on publishing the long-delayed report into the defunct Lilac Sky Schools...

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Hackney New School closed for a fresh start at the end of October after the free school had been downgraded from good to...

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Trent Valley Academy, Gainsborough, was officially opened in June 2010 by the Duke of Gloucester. The new-build academy, which...

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Gaia Technologies, a supplier of ICT services to schools whose government approval was suspended in August when Gaia entered...

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The suspended former executive principal of Thrive Partnership Academy Trust (TPAT), Catherine Hutley, has been...

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Hanson School, Bradford , has been waiting to become an academy since 2011. Two trusts, SPTA and WCAT, abandoned the school....

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The annual round for academy trusts to bid for funding from the Condition Improvement Fund opened yesterday, the Department for...

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The Cavendish Learning Trust( CLT) has been warned it may lose funding for two of its academies: Whitecotes Primary Academy and...

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£200k was paid by the Department for Education to Deloitte to wind up the notorious Wakefield City Academies Trust , BBC’s...

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