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Oct
Failure to find sponsors raises 'serious' questions of academisation law
Dozens of ‘inadequate’ schools have been left without a match 12 months after being ordered to convert into an academy More than a quarter of schools ordered to become
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Oct
1 in 4 Northern schools with academy order fail to find broker within a year
More than one in four schools in the North issued with a directive academy order couldn’t find a new broker within a year, DfE data has revealed. Under the Education and
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Oct
'Cut Pupil Premium if schools don't promote apprenticeships' says Halforn
Schools that fail to send pupils into apprenticeships should lose some of their pupil premium funding, the chair of the education select committee has said. Robert Halfon, a
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Oct
Government delays land valuations which could see schools foot the bill
The government has pushed back a planned valuation of academy land and buildings until January, leaving some schools facing the prospect of spending “thousands” on their own
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Oct
No schools turned into academies as a result of 'coasting' label
The Tory manifesto had pledged to turn every coasting secondary school into an academy. No schools branded “coasting” by the government have been turned into an
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Oct
Ofqual: subject choices are guided by enjoyment over difficulty
Subject difficulty is “the lesser of three concerns” for pupils when choosing what to study, a report by the exams regulator Ofqual has found. The research found that pupils
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