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January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM A second trust given a slice of £5 million northern academy hub funding has walked away from a school in special measures – meaning it has now been in limbo waiting for a permanent sponsor for six years. The Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) will no longer sponsor Hanson academy,

January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM More than 1,200 schools in England have not had a full Ofsted inspection in seven years, with more than 100 given respite for longer than a decade, a new Schools Week analysis reveals. A policy introduced by the government in 2011 exempts schools graded outstanding from further routine inspection as

January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM There are two types of blind spot: one in your eyes, the other in the world around you. Education is suffering from both. Every eye has a punctum caecum, a small spot at the back of the eyeball that cannot absorb light and so causes a hole in your sight.

January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM The Catholic church is set to take the government to court early this year over its decision to reject a priest’s letter as a legitimate way of admitting faith pupils. The diocese of Westminster will challenge the Office of the Schools Adjudicator (OSA) in a judicial review planned to take

January 5, 2017 at 01:21PM The government has written off £800,000 it was unable to claw back from free schools. Schools Week revealed last month that the DfE needed to claw back £11 million from more than 100 free schools after they failed to recruit the expected numbers of pupils in the past academic year.