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A free school linked to a former premier league football club had a deficit of more than £380,000 when it shut its doors, accounts reveal. Bolton Wanderers Free School closed last summer, less than three years after it opened. It had been branded ‘inadequate’ in all areas by Ofsted in a 2016 report which described a “culture of low aspirations”. Last […]

The education secretary has visited more than twice as many academies and free schools than maintained ones – and just one special school – in the first four months of his job. Details of Damian Hinds’ visits were released to Schools Week as part of a Freedom of Information request. Between January and the end […]

The controversial Perry Beeches academy trust had a £1.5 million deficit in the year before it was wound up, it has been revealed. According to its latest accounts, the now-defunct Birmingham trust managed to reduce the deficit across its schools from £2.5 million in August 2016, but still had a £1.5 million shortfall last summer. […]

Eight of the nine schools run by the Essex-based Collaborative Academies Trust are to be moved to new sponsors. In March, local media reported that the trust, set up by the American for-profit school improvement company Edison Learning, will walk away from five schools in Somerset this summer. Now Schools Week has learned that the […]

The collapsed construction firm Carillion made profits of up to 15 per cent on its work for schools in England. The firm reported revenues of £79 million for its education activities in England in 2016, and made much larger profits on its work in 312 schools than it did for its central government contracts, according […]

The impact of a new law which forces schools to allow training organisations the chance to speak to pupils about technical qualifications and apprenticeships will be reviewed by the Department for Education. The government has commissioned the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, a sector body that represents training companies, to carry out the review, […]

Leaders of a school run by the doomed Education Fellowship Trust have been praised for “considerable improvements” which raised their Ofsted rating from ‘inadequate’ to ‘good’ in less than two years. But the academy chain, which is in the process of giving up all of its schools, faced stinging criticism from inspectors for failing to […]

There is “overwhelming” support in schools for the introduction of compulsory PSHE lessons, according to a new report from a coalition of education unions, charities and teaching groups. A joint report by the National Association of Head Teachers, the National Education Union, the NSPCC, the Sex Education Forum, the PSHE Association and several other high-profile […]

A small London academy trust has been lined up to run Durand Academy, after the Harris Federation backed out of a sponsorship deal, citing concerns about legal agreements and the state of the school’s buildings. The government has agreed in principle to allow Dunraven Educational Trust, which runs neighbouring all-through school Dunraven Academy, to take over […]