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A Steiner free school in Devon that failed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of its pupils and “disproportionately” excluded those with special educational needs now faces being rebrokered to a new sponsor following a damning Ofsted report. Steiner Academy Exeter, one of a handful of state schools in England where learning is based on […]

Eight top schools, including Eton, Westminster and St Paul’s School for boys, had the same number of pupils accepted to Oxbridge as three quarters of all other schools put together, new research has found. At the other end of the scale, in some areas of the country just two or fewer pupils were accepted by […]

More than 30 per cent of local authority-maintained secondary schools are now in deficit, new data from the Department for Education shows. Statistics published by the government today show a worsening financial position for council-maintained schools as real-terms budget cuts continue to bite, with the number in deficit rising. At secondary level – the average […]

The government will start including data on the number of pupils schools send on to higher-level apprenticeships in school league tables in a bid to tackle “snobbery” over technical education, Damian Hinds will say today. The education secretary will announce a change to school performance tables which will see apprenticeships at level 4 or above […]

Academy trusts have become more risk-averse as the government has increased its auditing of their work, the former national schools commissioner has said. Sir David Carter said today that the weakest schools will continue to fail unless more strong academy trusts and leaders step up to take them on. It follows a warning from Ofsted […]

School leaders have been warned they will face action if they abuse their position of trust following the successful prosecution of an ex-headteacher who unlawfully took pupils’ personal data from his previous schools. The Information Commissioner’s Office issued the strong warning after Darren Harrison, of Twickenham, south London, was fined after admitting two offences of unlawfully […]

A new inspection regime for multi-academy trusts will be introduced this month, Ofsted has revealed. In its annual report, the watchdog said it will introduce new summary evaluations, which will see groups of schools in the same trust inspected across one or two terms and feedback sessions with leaders once reports are published. At the […]