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NB – This story was published as an April Fool’s story. All schools will be forced to remove the term “school” from their name and replace it with “academy” regardless of their legal status, leaked documents reveal. A government communications strategy, seen exclusively by Schools Week, states the changes could be passed as part of new […]

A special needs free school has been rated as inadequate by Ofsted with inspectors claiming a lack of access to external support was a “key element” in the school’s decline. Inspectors said school leaders at the Inspire Free Special School, in Kent, were not able to call on external help – meaning the school’s fall […]

A council is set to rubber stamp plans to turn its school partnership organisation into a company – seemingly marking the first step to setting up a multi-academy trust. Cabinet councillors from the London borough of Camden will decide next week if the Camden Schools Led Partnership (CSLP) can set up as a legal entity. […]

An academy trust funnelled more than £1m to a private company which then paid a “second salary” to the trust’s “superhead”, a government investigation has revealed today. Perry Beeches The Academy Trust – which runs five schools in Birmingham – has been issued with a financial notice to improve after an investigation revealed a string of […]

The government has confirmed today it will pass legislation forcing selected schools to take part in new national reference tests. The tests are designed to “strengthen” the GCSE grade setting process. They monitor, over time, how cohorts of students are performing and will act as a guide for increases or decreases in that cohort’s GCSE […]

A school has been told by Ofsted that it is “too focused” on becoming an academy – resulting in reduced time for governors and senior leaders to focus on driving needed improvement. The disclosure comes just days after Chancellor George Osborne (pictured below right) announced every school would have to become an academy by 2022. […]

Ofqual has announced today that pupils who miss out on a C grade in English or maths GCSE this summer will have two resit chances. The GCSEs in English, English language and maths are due to be replaced by the government’s supposedly tougher reformed subjects after pupils have sat the last exams this year. Ofqual had […]

A swell of uprising is growing against the government’s plan to turn all schools into academies with petitions reaching more than 100,000 signatures and demonstrators hitting the streets. Two petitions challenging the all-out academisation as detailed in last week’s White Paper will now be considered for debate in Parliament after hitting the 100,000 mark in […]