Top UK school opens new international branch in Dubai
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2017/02/03/top-uk-school-opens-new-international-branch-dubai/
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Academies should be made to take in excluded children, officials say
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Unethical academics are making a mockery of our education system
A culture of immoral behaviour is thriving at our universities. But these are publicly funded institutions – and must be held to account On the face of it, ethics in academia have transformed over the past few decades – most, if not all, universities now have ethics committees to oversee the quality of research. Yet
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Beware John Blake, the “Red rebel” with great influence
My memory of early evening, Friday November 14, 2003, is hazy. My brain seems to think it was raining, and a Met Office report concurs. “Bands of heavy rain and showers were carried on gale-force south-westerly winds.” I’m pretty sure that a meeting I attended in the late afternoon took place after dark. A quick
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Revealed: The 23 trusts that broke rules over £4m related-party transactions
Twenty-three academy trusts breached funding rules last year when they made payments of more than £4 million to companies related to members of their staff or trustees. For the first time, Schools Week can reveal who the trusts are and the 26 transactions in which they failed to show they were fully compliant with rules
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Meet the £200k-per-year academy chiefs who look after just a handful of schools
Growing numbers of academy leaders, many of them responsible for only a handful of schools, now earn more than £200,000 a year. In one case a headteacher at a single academy trust is now paid £220,000, while an associate head at the same trust is on £145,000. A Schools Week investigation also revealed two chief
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Roll pupil premium into national funding formula, say experts
Key architects of the government’s new national funding formula have suggested the pupil premium could be rolled into core school funding before protection for it runs out in 2020. The government has pledged to keep the £2.5 billion pupil premium throughout this parliament. It gives additional funds of between £935 and £1,320 for every pupil
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Auditors flag increase in financially ‘unviable’ academy trusts
Auditors are increasingly raising the alarm about academy trusts at risk of running out of money, with chains raiding reserves and eyeing expansion to pay off deficits. A Schools Week analysis of annual accounts has revealed a prevailing picture of “unviable trusts”. The Rodillian Trust, which sponsors three schools in West Yorkshire, used more than
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Schools have no funds to train teachers, says study
A report warns of schools "wiping out" their budgets for improving staff skills.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38827188
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George Osborne: north-south divide in schools needs urgent attention
Former chancellor’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership calls on ministers to take action to close England’s education gap Ministers need to pay “urgent attention” to the growing north-south divide in England’s schools, George Osborne has said, as he warned of an alarming brain drain of graduates from the north. In the first report by the Northern Powerhouse
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