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21 April 2026

Author: Freddie Whittaker

Academy trusts will appear in January鈥檚 league tables

Next year, the public will be able to see for themselves how well multi-academy trusts are doing in the school performance league tables for the first time. From January 25 next year, academy trusts will be included alongside individual schools on the Department for Education’s website, as it seeks to make information about trusts more […]

Revealed: The two schools ‘double-bounced’ between sponsors

Crawshaw Academy and Wigan UTC are the only two schools to have been rebrokered twice since records began, the government has revealed. The Department for Education has responded to questions from the parliamentary education committee about the movement of schools between academy trusts. In its response, the government said that Crawshaw Academy in Pudsey, West […]

Schools fail to ‘obtain’ nationality data on quarter of pupils

Schools failed to obtain nationality data for a quarter of their pupils this year, indicating a significant resistance to the controversial new requirement to collect it from school staff, parents and pupils. New government data shows the information was successfully collected from around three quarters of the 8.1 million pupils who were registered in January. […]

A third of EAL pupils are fluent in English

A third of pupils with English as an additional language are fluent in it, according to new data from the school census. A new requirement that schools record data on EAL pupils’ proficiency in English came into effect last summer. The system involves schools grading proficiency on a sliding scale from “new to English” to “fluent”. […]

DfE to pay 拢10m for checks on school leader qualifications

The government is looking for a company to check the quality of new national professional qualifications for teachers, and up to £10 million is available for the winning bidder. The Department for Education has advertised for a “single national provider or consortium” to provide “quality assurance to National Professional Qualifications throughout England” between March 2018 […]

Manchester Creative Studio School faces closure

A studio school in Manchester plagued with financial and performance problems since it opened in 2014 faces closure after the schools commissioner said turning it around would be a “challenging task” for any new sponsor. The regional schools commissioner, Vicky Beer, has written to everyone involved with the Manchester Creative Studio to inform them of […]

Floreat and Avanti Trust seek to merge

An academy trust founded by a minister is considering a merger with another chain after it admitted that it cannot continue to run three primary schools on its own. The Floreat Education Academies Trust, set up by Lord O’Shaughnessy, a health minister and a former adviser of David Cameron’s in 2014, is in talks with […]

Carter and Agnew at education committee: 6 things we learned

The parliamentary education committee spent almost two hours grilling the national schools commissioner Sir David Carter and the academies minister Lord Theodore Agnew. It was Agnew’s first appearance in front of the committee since his appointment, and Carter’s first hearing for at least a year. Here are the 6 most important things we learned…   […]