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One of the country’s fastest-growing academy trusts is seeking a new chief executive after its current boss announced his plans to retire. Frank Norris, the head of the Co-operative Academies Trust, will step down in June 2019, Schools Week can exclusively reveal. The trust’s new leader will oversee a massive expansion of the organisation, and […]

A learning centre for home-educated children taught pupils for more than 18 hours a week and set homework each night, despite not being registered as a school, a court heard today. In a landmark case, senior district judge Emma Arbuthnot, the chief magistrate of England and Wales, is hearing the first prosecution of an unregistered school […]

A charity run by the academies minister Lord Agnew donated £12,000 to a project set up to look into cutting regulations after Brexit, it has emerged. Accounts for the Public Interest Foundation, a charity founded by Agnew, his wife Clare and businessman David Tibble, show the Red Tape Foundation was one of eight main benefactors […]

The former head of an academy trust who drew a second salary from a private company contracted to his own schools has been found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct. A Teacher Regulation Agency misconduct panel ruled today that the actions of Liam Nolan, the former chief executive of the Perry Beeches chain, “lacked integrity”. The […]

The rate at which pupils are absent from English schools without permission has risen again this year. New data for the autumn of 2017 and spring of 2018 shows the rate of unauthorised absence from primary and secondary schools was 1.2 per cent over the period, up from 1.1 per cent in the same period […]

The proportion of reception pupils reaching a “good” level of development has risen again this year, according to the latest early years foundation stage profile results. In 2018, 71.5 per cent of pupils achieved what the government deems to be a “good level of development”, up from 70.7 per cent last year. The proportion of […]

A former superhead who earned a second salary from a private company contracted by his own academy trust has insisted his business interests were “out there and transparent”, and that he never tried to cover up the deal. Liam Nolan, the former chief executive of the now-defunct Perry Beeches academy trust, denies dishonest conduct and […]

The government has released provisional key stage 4 data this morning that reveals how schools have fared in headline accountability measures. The data includes figures on the new Progress and Attainment 8 measures and also provides an update on EBacc figures. Here are the key findings.   1. Progress 8: Free schools soar as sponsored academies […]