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Two new maths hubs will open in Cheshire and central Lancashire, taking the total number operating nationally to 37. Nick Gibb, the schools minister, will announce today that £1.75 million of existing funding will be handed to the two projects in the north of England. Maths hubs are each run by a lead school or […]

The Careers and Enterprise Company faced MPs’ questions over its “giant and confusing” structure and a lack of transparency over its spending of public money. One member of the parliamentary education committee suggested that the CEC, set up in 2015 with tens of millions of pounds in government funding, is an “over-bloated quango” that cannot prove if […]

Ministers claim not to know how many new schools will open now it’s easier to found new voluntary-aided institutions. The government has offered “support” to groups wanting to set up new VA schools as a compromise after it abandoned plans to scrap the 50-per-cent cap on faith-based admissions at over-subscribed free schools. The move is particularly […]

The schools minister has refused to say whether more cash will be made available for larger pay rises for teachers. Nick Gibb used education questions in the Commons today to dodge questions on schools’ ability to afford pay rises now that the public sector pay cap has been lifted. This year, the School Teachers Review […]

Damian Hinds will meet MPs to discuss the “savage cuts” proposed by a prominent university-backed academy chain. The University of Chester Academies Trust today confirmed that it is considering cutting 24 support staff and 19 teaching roles across its seven schools in Cheshire and Staffordshire. The trust is also in discussions with the Department for […]

A Church-backed academy trust in the east of England has been praised by Ofsted for improvements to pupil outcomes. Following a focused inspection of six of the 30 schools run by the Diocese of Norwich Education and Academies Trust, the chain has been lauded for the “upward trajectory” in pupil outcomes. Between February 27 and March […]

A University Technical College has been issued with a financial notice to improve after it failed to set a balanced budget. The Education and Skills Funding Agency has written to Watford UTC, a technical school for 14 to 19-year-olds in Hertfordshire, over concerns about “failures in governance and financial management”. The intervention follows several requests from […]

More than 500 days after the consultation closed, the government has finally published its response to the ‘Schools that work for everyone’ green paper. However, far from presenting a clear picture of the exact number and proportion of respondents who supported which proposals, the official analysis of the thousands of responses provides only vague indications […]

Respondents to a high-profile government consultation on grammar schools mostly wanted them take all their pupils from poorer households, it has emerged. The idea that new grammar schools should take 100 per cent of their pupils from lower-income backgrounds was the most popular among the 5,274 people who answered a question in the consultation about the proportion […]