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A landmark planning battle over a free school site is again heading for the high court after two councils decided to proceed with a legal challenge against the government. Greg Clark (pictured above), the secretary of state for communities and local government, earlier this year granted Khalsa Secondary Academy – which is a free school […]

Every regional schools commissioner (RSC) will now have two deputy directors – paid up to £95,000 – Schools Week can reveal, as full details of the government’s academies management expansion emerge. Last week Schools Week reported that eight new senior civil servants will help run regional schools commissioner officers. They have been appointed from within […]

The Department for Education is to appoint eight new senior civil servants to head up regional schools commissioner (RSC) offices and help handle their rising workload. The deputy directors will “complement senior leadership teams” in each of the eight RSC offices, but will not have the decision-making powers specific to RSCs. As Schools Week reported yesterday, […]

A regional schools commissioner has quit to become the new headteacher of an academy that was rated Ofsted inadequate last month, Schools Week can reveal. Pank Patel, regional schools commissioner for the West Midlands, will join the George Salter academy, in West Bromwich, in September. The academy, run by one of the country’s largest academy […]

Nicky Morgan’s decision to allow a controversial grammar school expansion on a site nine miles away has again been questioned after new claims the school flouted consultation guidelines. The education secretary approved an application in October last year from Weald of Kent Grammar School, in Tonbridge, to open an annexe on a site in Sevenoaks. […]

Provisional figures for summer exam entries have been released today by qualifications watchdog Ofqual. In usual Schools Week-style, we’ve been through the report and picked out the key points:   Pupils still mostly plumping for AS-levels – despite A-level overhaul   This is really interesting … The A-level system got a significant shake-up last September. […]

An academy chain has been given government permission to set up a third trust to sponsor 15 schools in the south west of England, despite two-thirds of its current schools still yet to be inspected by Ofsted. The REACH chain currently has two academy trusts – REAch2 and Reach4 – in charge of 52 schools […]

Evaluations of two research projects looking at sports coaching in English and speech therapy training for teachers, costing £1.1 million, found no evidence of improving pupils’ attainment. The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) today published its latest round of evaluation reports into programmes it has funded. Talk of the Town The EEF spent almost £1 million […]