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Schools deemed coasting will no longer face the threat of forced academisation or a change of sponsor following a U-turn due to be announced by the education secretary today. Under the changes, regional schools commissioners will be prevented from sending education advisers in to inspect schools. Damian Hinds wants to save schools from the “spectre” […]

A £10 million fund set up more than three years ago to improve education in the north of England has not yet been spent, a former minister has told MPs. The Northern Powerhouse Education Fund was announced by the former chancellor George Osborne during his autumn statement in late 2014. According to the Northern Powerhouse […]

The government gave more than £250,000 to a doomed free school to help it close down, new documents reveal. The annual accounts of the Collective Spirit Free School in Oldham, Greater Manchester, show the Education and Skills Funding Agency paid £254,819 “to assist in the close-down of the academy” in 2016-17. The funding meant that […]

The trust blamed for tumbledown buildings and terrible results at Whitehaven Academy has tried to blame the school’s problems on its staff, unions, Ofsted, the media and even parents, according to revealing new documents. Bright Tribe announced it would give up the struggling Cumbrian school last November following intense pressure from parents over the state […]

The inner workings of one of the country’s most controversial academy trusts have been laid bare in the minutes of trustee meetings, obtained by a Freedom of Information request. Bright Tribe, founded by a charity run by millionaire property tycoon Michael Dwan, currently runs 10 academies in Suffolk, Greater Manchester and the north of England, […]

A multi-millionaire property developer is facing criticism for a conflict of interest between two academy trusts he ran. Michael Dwan was found to have shared sensitive information about the impending closure of one of his schools with another academy trust he chairs and which was hoping to open a new school on the site. According […]

Northumberland county council has launched legal action to recover £230,000 given to Bright Tribe academy trust to take on a struggling school because the chain later walked away from the deal. Bright Tribe was paid to convert Haydon Bridge High School in Northumberland, but abandoned it last November, blaming the school’s deficit and low pupil […]

Leo Shapiro, the chief executive of exam board OCR, has stepped down after less than two years in post. Schools Week understands Shapiro left on Friday, but that he will continue to work for the Cambridge Assessment Group, OCR’s parent company. The exam board said Shapiro’s move is “part of a planned change to support […]

Whitehaven Academy, the troubled Cumbrian school at the centre of a row over the state of its buildings, is closed today after asbestos was disturbed on its site. The Bright Tribe Trust, which runs the school, said this morning that building materials containing asbestos were discovered “during a routine asbestos survey”, and that “swift and […]