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DfE will create regional 'development networks' to support growing academy trusts and publish reports on school sponsorship capacity

The government will ramp up its use of powers to strip trusts of groups of underperforming academies en-masse, a minister has said

About three in five planned free schools are slated to open in areas with rising numbers of surplus pupil places, analysis by Schools Week has found

A university technical college (UTC) in Bolton could be rebrokered into a new academy trust, over concerns about its 'inadequate standard of education'

Have no idea. >> ashley: you work the academy with the new recruits, would be police officers. did you see a decline in the type of officer that wanted to be with the police department? tell us what you saw. >> we see it all the time and the training staff, we were being told also so we had to lower the standards. if you look across the border, anybody from the range staff to fire a weapon or told to change their times. we were changing the standards and push up like we are not getting a lot of ...

The Confederation of School Trusts has recruited sector experts for a wide-ranging inquiry into 'what works' in academy trusts

Dozens of academy leaders have been identified as pay 'outliers', earning far more than their peers who run similar-sized trusts

A turnaround academy trust set up to transform challenging schools was lined up by government to sponsor a Midlands school two days after it was rated 'good'

REAch2 said reserves and GAG pooling would allow 'strategic' decisions and 'solidarity', but centralisation and a £2.5m restructure could prove controversial

Are from the area. how are they able just to travel around the country, some of them around the world, finding places to protest. how are they able to leave their families or not go to work. not pay their bills? >> brian: i think they are getting paid. i think you got to separate these guys and these women and really drill down on how they are organized. how they are funded. because they dont need another job. im convinced of it. the other thing is this. what great opportunity for the administra...