Richard Adams reported for The Guardian from the Sutton Trust/Carnegie summit Independent schools should lose their charitable status unless they volunteer to run state academies, the UK’s chief schools inspector…
Ofsted calls for ‘battlers’ to be new breed of headteacher
…state-funded academies. Meanwhile, the Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, called for the most talented teachers to be fast-tracked into headships as twenty-somethings. Speaking at a conference organised by the Sutton Trust…
OECD at a glance
…with age. Schleicher is a big fan of academies in England. But this support for more autonomous schools comes with a big caveat: we also need outside checks and balances…
Sutton Trust cited during final Commons debate on Education and Adoption Bill
…“The Sutton Trust concluded in its recent report that the very poor results for pupils of some chains are of urgent concern… the much-respected Sutton Trust demonstrated that sponsored academies…
Some academy sponsors are ‘harming’ prospects of deprived pupils, report claims
…charity the Sutton Trust, suggests that 44 per cent of existing academies would be branded as “coasting” if the government’s tough new guidance on acceptable standards were in force today….
Three out of four academy chains have schools that are ‘coasting’, says new research
…has found. Nearly half of the individual academies analysed in the Sutton Trust study would be classified as “coasting” under the Government’s new clampdown on schools. Twenty-six of the 34…