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15 Jan 16
Councils will be unable to meet their legal duty to ensure all children have access to a school place unless academies expand to meet demand, the Local Government Association has warned today.
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1 Dec 15
Ofsted’s annual report has revealed that underperforming secondary schools in England are concentrated in the North and Midlands, where over 400,000 children attend a secondary school rated as...
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25 Nov 15
The school funding system is to be overhauled and sixth form colleges are to be allowed to become academies, exempting them from VAT, chancellor George Osborne has announced.
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19 Nov 15
Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said “amateurish” governance in schools must be improved, highlighting concerns about arrangements in nearly 500 schools in the last academic year.
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9 Nov 15
High performing grant maintained schools should be given additional powers to take over struggling schools, including academies, the Local Government Association said today.
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15 Sep 15
Councillors should use their “unique role” to help hold schools to account as they convert to academies, the Centre for Public Scrutiny has said.
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7 Sep 15
The London Borough of Croydon is to receive £102m from the European Investment Bank to improve schools across the borough, the first time that an EIB loan has been agreed for this purpose.
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12 Aug 15
All but six of Scotland’s 32 councils are failing to comply with a six-year-old minimum recommended level of school clothing grants to disadvantaged families, and two have cut their payment...
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24 Jul 15
An analysis of results at more than 150 academy schools in England has concluded that nearly half (44%) would be classed as “coasting” under the government’s proposed education reforms.
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14 Jul 15
Chief education inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has raised concerns that schools and local authorities are not doing enough to track where pupils who leave school at unusual times of the year are going...
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1 Jul 15
High-performing council schools should be able to sponsor struggling schools without taking on academy status, the Local Government Association has said.
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30 Jun 15
Hundreds of “coasting” schools risk being turned into academies under new strict measures announced today.
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30 Jun 15
The pupil premium policy, designed to help the most disadvantaged schoolchildren, is not identifying those who need it the most and is not being spent in the most “appropriate” way by...
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30 Apr 15
Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
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27 Feb 14
Creating a system of fair school admissions is never easy. But it is important that opportunities to attend more successful schools aren’t limited to those with the deepest pockets
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13 Dec 13
‘Freedom’ from council control does not mean an abdication of responsibility. Academies and free schools need to improve their approaches to both governance and financial probity
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21 May 13
The schools spending ringfence should be removed, to ease up the pressure on other departments. And there's evidence that educational standards need not suffer
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25 Feb 13
The Welsh government appears complacent as school performance continues to deteriorate. Ministers need to think radically and should start by introducing some competition into the education system
15 Jan 16Councils will be unable to meet their legal duty to ensure all children have access to a school place unless academies expand to meet demand, the Local Government Association has warned today.
1 Dec 15Ofsted’s annual report has revealed that underperforming secondary schools in England are concentrated in the North and Midlands, where over 400,000 children attend a secondary school rated as...
25 Nov 15The school funding system is to be overhauled and sixth form colleges are to be allowed to become academies, exempting them from VAT, chancellor George Osborne has announced.
19 Nov 15Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has said “amateurish” governance in schools must be improved, highlighting concerns about arrangements in nearly 500 schools in the last academic year.
9 Nov 15High performing grant maintained schools should be given additional powers to take over struggling schools, including academies, the Local Government Association said today.
15 Sep 15Councillors should use their “unique role” to help hold schools to account as they convert to academies, the Centre for Public Scrutiny has said.
7 Sep 15The London Borough of Croydon is to receive £102m from the European Investment Bank to improve schools across the borough, the first time that an EIB loan has been agreed for this purpose.
30 Jun 15Hundreds of “coasting” schools risk being turned into academies under new strict measures announced today.
30 Jun 15The pupil premium policy, designed to help the most disadvantaged schoolchildren, is not identifying those who need it the most and is not being spent in the most “appropriate” way by...
30 Apr 15Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
13 Dec 13‘Freedom’ from council control does not mean an abdication of responsibility. Academies and free schools need to improve their approaches to both governance and financial probity
21 May 13The schools spending ringfence should be removed, to ease up the pressure on other departments. And there's evidence that educational standards need not suffer
