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Lack of access to early years education, dentists and ventilated classrooms are causing a fall in attendance among disadvantaged pupils in the North of England, a parliamentary report is warning.

Katharine Birbalsingh has been releasing videos of pupils at her school, Michaela Community, getting their GCSE results. They’re incredibly moving, all the more so because you wonder how many of these same kids – many from disadvantaged backgrounds – would have done if she had not set up that free school. These results are testimony, yes, to pupil effort. But

A CORONER ruled a Bradford teenager died an accidental death after he was impaled by a shard of glass from a greenhouse on Bonfire Night last year.

Mohammed Qais Ratyal, 17, died after he was stabbed through his chest by a shard of glass when he plunged through the greenhouse in the garden of a house in Halifax, West Yorkshire

Mohammed Qais Ratyal (pictured) was stabbed through his chest when he plunged into the garden of a house in Halifax, West Yorkshire, while he and his friends were jumping over fences.

Most MAT chiefs are lucky if they get to open one free school in their lifetime. Wesley Davies has opened three, all of which are now rated ‘outstanding’. Davies spent the first 20 years of his career at Dixons Academies Trust, where he got first-hand experience of the emergence of the modern MAT system. As chief executive of Two Counties trust

A BRADFORD-based woman says she wants to be a role model to the next generation of civil engineers after winning a national award.

Luke Sparkes, the new chief executive of Dixons Academies Trust, talks John Dickens through expansion plans, why university-for-all is the right ambition and how the school funding squeeze threatens innovation … “I am absolutely a proud northerner,” says Luke Sparkes, who stepped up to become chief executive of Dixons Academies Trust in September. Dixons runs 16

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DIXONS Academies Trust has announced its CEO, Sir Nick Weller, is to step down.