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The Education and Skills Funding Agency has upheld concerns raised by a whistleblower about the Olive Tree Primary School, a...
Read moreREAch2, the largest primary-only academy trust, has received a minded to terminate letter re Sprites Primary Academy, Ipswich,...
Read moreThe Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) plans to repay a £1m loan from the Education and Skills Funding Agency by selling ‘...
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The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) took over Goodwin Academy, Kent, from the notorious SchoolsCompany Trust (SCT) in...
Read moreWhen a local authority school is judged inadequate, a directive academy order (DAO) is issued. This means the school must close...
Read morePupils at Michaela Community School achieved stellar GCSE results in 2019, the first year the school entered pupils for GCSE...
Read moreThe notorious SchoolsCompany Trust was stripped of its academies in 2018 after the discovery of serious failings at three...
Read moreFive letters warning academy trusts that their funding may be stopped following inadequate judgements were published yesterday. I reported on...
Read moreThe Academies Enterprise Trust, one of England’s largest multi-academy trust with 61 academies, has received a second letter...
Read moreAcademy trusts must ‘control the narrative’ which has been dominated by opponents of academization, says the Confederation of...
Read moreThe Learning Link Multi Academy Trust which runs four primary schools in Dudley has been served with a Financial Notice to...
Read more Khalsa Secondary Academy, a Sikh free school in Buckinghamshire, has been sent a ‘minded to terminate’ letter by the area’s...
Read more The Department of Education ‘does not anticipate’ receiving the independent investigative report into the former executive...
Read more‘MAT performance data should not be used to infer performance of the MAT system as a whole,’ the Department for Education says...
Read more Hackney New School closed for a fresh start at the end of October after the free school had been downgraded from good to...
Read moreTrent Valley Academy, Gainsborough, was officially opened in June 2010 by the Duke of Gloucester. The new-build academy, which...
Read moreHanson School, Bradford , has been waiting to become an academy since 2011. Two trusts, SPTA and WCAT, abandoned the school....
Read moreYoung people educated in a private secondary school were 12 percentage points more likely than their state-educated peers to...
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