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A school plans to charge pupils to do weeding during lesson time as part of a range of options during activities week, whilst other pupils go abroad. At £1 for the day, ‘clearing the weeds and helping out on the allotment’ is at the bottom end of options set out by Sir William Romney’s School, […]

New figures published by the government today reveal how well the country’s multi-academy trusts are performing. The Department for Education’s MAT league tables rank chains based on their progress scores and other metrics recorded in last summer’s GCSEs. The data covers 102 trusts with three or more schools that have been with them for at […]

The government has published its multi-academy trust league tables for 2019. The annual data release gives a ranking of trusts above a certain size by various measures, the most important being progress 8. Here are how the trusts fared last year. Well Above Average Star Academies 0.74 Dixons Academies Charitable Trust Ltd 0.72 The Cardinal […]

The government has announced it will back a draft law aimed at cutting the cost of school uniforms. Mike Amesbury, the MP for Weaver Vale and a shadow work and pensions minister, will introduce a private member’s bill today which seeks to put the Department for Education’s 2013 school uniform guidance on a statutory footing. […]

Former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has been selected to serve again on the Parliamentary education committee, Schools Week has learned. Labour has also put forward Ian Mearns, a long-serving committee member, for another term. He served as a de facto deputy to chair Robert Halfon during the last Parliament. Labour has also nominated Fleur […]

Police are investigating the finances of the failed Schools Company academy trust, according to reports. A BBC Inside Out South West investigation, which airs tonight, will report that Kent police are looking into the chain, which collapsed in 2018 after it was stripped of its four schools by ministers. The Schools Company Trust (SCT) ran […]

Schools are increasingly taking matters into their own hands when it comes to dealing with mental health issues among their pupils, a new survey has revealed. A poll by the NAHT school leaders’ union and children’s mental health charity Place2Be found 66 per cent of schools reported commissioning their own professional help for pupils. A […]

England’s largest academy trust has launched an investigation into an allegation that a vulnerable child was “encouraged” to leave one of its schools. United Learning said it was “investigating with urgency” after receiving an allegation relating to a pupil studying at one of its Avonbourne academies in Bournemouth, Dorset. We also know that while most […]