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colleges

Can college-run MATs solve the classroom-to-career conundrum?

The number of schools sponsored by colleges is up by 174 per cent in the past four years from…

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
RAAC

The ‘ticking time bomb’ leaving schools ‘liable to collapse’

Ministers urgently seek details about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), used widely in flat-roofed school buildings

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Exams

Dr Michelle Meadows, former Ofqual deputy chief regulator

Dr Michelle Meadows was second-in-command at Ofqual during the 2020 exams fiasco, a grading disaster that will echo in…

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Academy trusts

‘Our students leave with the powerful knowledge they can challenge the elite’

Luke Sparkes, the new chief executive of Dixons Academies Trust, talks John Dickens through expansion plans, why university-for-all is…

John Dickens
John Dickens
Features

Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility, University of Exeter

Lee Elliot Major gave up a dream job to become the UK’s first professor of social mobility. Donna Ferguson…

Donna Ferguson
Donna Ferguson
Politics

What will become of the endangered ‘Tory teacher’?

‘The Conservatives must return to being the party of social justice’

Freddie Whittaker
Donna Ferguson


Features

George White, inclusion lead, St Paul’s Catholic School

George White, inclusion lead and RE teacher at St Paul’s Catholic School, transitioned while starting a job at his…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Vijita Patel, principal, Swiss Cottage School

Vijita Patel has led Swiss Cottage School, a local authority special needs school in Camden, through multiple ‘outstanding’ Ofsted…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Gwyn ap Harri, chief design officer, XP School Trust

Gwyn ap Harri, chief design officer at XP School Trust, exploded onto the scene in 2014 with his tiny…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Tracey Cleverly, chief executive, Learning Academy Partnership

Tracey Cleverly, who co-founded and now leads the Learning Academy Partnership, has been at the trust through both successes…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

CPD for free: Meet the open source academy trust

From running a podcast to a book club, staff at the Greenshaw Learning Trust put aside hours of their…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg
Features

Anna Firth, MP and founder, Invicta National Academy

Anna Firth is a co-founder of the online learning platform Invicta Academy and a member of the education select…

Jess Staufenberg
Jess Staufenberg

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Covid

DfE threatened with legal action over ‘unlawful’ Covid attendance rules

The government is being threatened with legal action if it fails to update attendance guidance for vulnerable children and…

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Academy trusts’ cash stash rises to £3bn despite pandemic pressures

Academy trusts boosted their reserves and surpluses last year despite the upheaval of Covid, official figures show. New Department…

Tom Belger
Tom Belger