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A council will terminate the contracts of 2,700 teaching assistants and offer them lower pay deals, following soon after similar announcements by three academy chains. Durham County Council is preparing to offer its teaching assistants term-time only pay deals – meaning staff could lose up to £400 per month, according to union members. It follows […]

Exam boards have today reaffirmed their commitment to delivering reformed GCSEs and A-levels yet to be approved by Ofqual after one board announced it will no longer develop new modern foreign languages qualifications. It was revealed earlier today that exam board OCR will be withdrawing its proposed new qualifications in French, German and Spanish. In […]

A third academy chain in as many months has told staff across its schools they face losing their jobs – as the budget squeeze seemingly spreads to multi-academy trusts. More than 30 teaching posts are reportedly under threat across schools sponsored by the University of Chester Academy Trust (UCAT). The trust, which runs seven schools, did not […]

Superhead Liam Nolan has resigned from his role at Perry Beeches Academy Trust today – paving the way for the government to appoint a new interim executive board. Nolan has also stepped down from his accounting officer role following a government probe that revealed the executive headteacher was paid a second salary of £160,000 via […]

Councils potentially at risk of being branded as failing and having all their schools converted into academies – under new government plans revealed today – are overwhelmingly Labour-run. The government announced a climb-down this afternoon on its white paper proposals to force all schools into academies by 2022. Instead, ministers plan to introduce new laws […]

An academy trust has told more than 100 staff across its schools they face losing or having to reapply for their jobs as part of a savings drive that a union says “undermines ministers’ claims that headteachers have increased autonomy in academies”. The Academy Transformation Trust (ATT) will undergo a major restructure across its 21 […]

Nicky Morgan clashed with MPs over the extent of academy failures, during a hearing in parliament today. Labour MP Ian Austin, speaking at a session of the education committee, said that one-fifth of the country’s 4,410 academies were in the bottom two Ofsted categories, according to figures compiled by the House of Commons library, and […]

A new analysis released today from the data experts at Watchsted has attempted to shed more light on how the performance of local authority schools compares to that of academies. The Local Government Association commissioned the study and suggested the data shows “council maintained schools continue to outperform academies”. The organisation pointed to a finding […]

The department for education has failed to claw back any money from 26 payments between academy trusts and related parties – despite them being deemed improper. The failure has been revealed under new figures obtained by the Labour Party that show the number of academy trusts making payments to businesses connected to their directors or trustees are rising. A total […]