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Former regional schools commissioner John Edwards will lead the Department for Education's powerful new 'regions group', overseeing government schools policy

Joining an academy trust has only a 'small' positive impact on so-called 'stuck' secondary schools, and none for languishing primaries, says report

Ministers expect to fully implement their school funding reforms 'within the next five years', a new consultation on the plans has revealed

The NEU is backing parents' bid to stop the standalone academy joining United Learning, claiming consultation was flawed

Two former academies ministers have teamed up with a former education secretary in an attempt to tear up sweeping proposed government powers over schools

Its just rapid response, youre not thinking, all else can be solved after, right? everything else can be solved after. >> yeah, jonathan, whats your take on this? what questions does this raise for you? >> well, pam, in modern policing, active shooter protocols are a basic tenet. its caught in the academies and in in-service training. its constantly reinforced because we know the successful outcome of a rapid response. the first priority of any responding officer is to stop the attack and the ki...

DfE warned against complacency over multi-academy trust board recruitment, with the schools bill potentially requiring more than 10,000 new trustees

The National Tutoring Programme’s failure to focus on poorer children will widen the attainment gap, the government’s own tuition providers have warned

Councils have been forced to find more cash to keep a special school trust afloat, after it claimed insufficient funding left it paying wages from its reserves

The leading trust's school faced criticism over a 'culture of sanctions', unmonitored missing pupils and unrecorded bullying and prejudice