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New schools

January 2019

  • Children at a Steiner kindergarten

    Steiner state school in Bristol launches legal action against Ofsted

    Bristol academy says watchdog’s inspection showed bias against Steiner schools

March 2018

  • Toby Young has resigned as chief executive of the New Schools Network charity.

    Toby Young quits New Schools Network, citing media pressure

    Departure of free school champion follows controversy over his comments about women and eugenics

January 2018

  • Polly Toynbee

    First thoughts
    With his views on eugenics, why does Toby Young still have a job in education?

    Polly Toynbee
    The new schools champion has done a Tim Farron – only this time the issue that makes a powerful man’s position untenable is not gay sex

August 2014

  • Michael Gove at Perry Beeches III free school in Birmingham.

    Free schools 'popular with non-white families'

    White children account for third of the free school primary population - less than half the national average in England

September 2013

  • Heyford Park free school

    From airfields to fire stations, the free schools springing up in unusual places

  • Michael Gove

    Warning of dire school places shortage

August 2013

  • Painting of William Wordsworth at Wordsworth House Cockermouth Cumbria

    Speed read
    Education in brief: DfE spends £1.1m on free school's temporary site

    More than £1.1m is to be spent refurbishing an office block that will house a free school for two years; GCSE English literature changes may be a barrier for less able pupils; DfE ignores 98% vote against Harris transfer in official consultation

January 2013

  • Michael Gove

    Free schools: government ordered to publish list of bids

    Department of Education fails in attempt to withhold details of groups applying to open free schools as appeal dismissed

September 2012

  • thomas-deacon-academy

    New schools to be smaller after coalition cuts building budget

    Corridors, assembly halls and canteens to shrink in size under government proposals for 261 replacement buildings

May 2012

  • Technical colleges will limit opportunities

  • JCB Academy in Rocester, Staffordshire

    Fifteen more university technical colleges to open in next two years

April 2012

  • A free school in West Yorkshire

    Mortarboard blog
    Why won't Gove back free schools?

    A flagship policy is drifting for lack of cash - and willpower

March 2012

  • US President Barack Obama at Capital City public charter school

    Teacher's blog
    Are we heading for full profit-making schools?

    Ron Glatter

    Ron Glatter: Cosy mutual talk is just clouding the issue – if for-profit education is the goal, we should debate it directly

April 2011

  • Estelle Morris

    Time to ask the tricky questions about university technical colleges

    Estelle Morris
    University technical colleges are being heralded as the answer to all education's problems, but we need to look carefully at what their impact will be, says Estelle Morris

October 2010

  • Fiona Millar

    True parent power means sticking by your local school

    Fiona Millar
  • Education secretary Michael Gove.

    Most of Gove's free schools behind schedule

September 2010

  • A new mum again
    A new mum again … at 48!

  • Schools Network

August 2010

  • Peter Wilby

    Barnardo's is right to sound the alarm over state schools

    Peter Wilby
    Peter Wilby: From the postcode lottery to free schools, government policy is entrenching social segregation in our education system

July 2010

  • Michael Gove's schools could improve education for all children

    Jennifer Beckles
    Jennifer Beckles: Free schools could provide a link between school and family, giving disadvantaged children a greater chance of success
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