The school funding crisis is leading some schools to divert pupil premium funding away from its intended purpose. Donna Tandy, academy improvement partner at Focus Trust, shares their successful approach and wonders what the future [read more]
Picture this; you and your senior leadership team take the opportunity to review the school’s aims and decide to refocus the vision; it’s time to make the necessary interventions to improve student attainment in STEAM [read more]
The Belfast Telegraph has spoken to Dr Graham Gault following last week’s speech, in which he expressed that some Irish schools are so cash-starved they need to ask parents to pay for basic essentials like [read more]
A coalition of teachers, carers and support workers have come together to ask the government to stop ignoring children in its spending plans, according to the BBC The government has been told by over 120 [read more]
A new analysis of government spending on children has revealed some concerning trends regarding where the money actually does and does not go The Children’s Commissioner has released a new report – produced by the [read more]
Collaborative partnerships involving pupil premium resources have been noticeable by their absence across the education sector. In an edited extract of An updated guide to the pupil premium, Mark Rowland provides a rare glimpse into [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen on BBC News Protecting schools from real-terms cuts in England would mean spending the equivalent of an extra penny on the basic rate of income tax, says the Institute [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen on the BBC Almost £140m has been “wasted” on free schools and other new types of school, which either closed early or failed to open at all, says a [read more]
CREDIT: This story was first seen in the Guardian Schools are facing the first real-terms cuts to their funding since the mid-1990s, a leading think tank has warned. The Guardian reports that, according to the Institute [read more]
The Economic Benefits of Joining or Establishing a Multi-Academy Trust, undertaken by Stone Group in conjunction with the Education Policy Institute (EPI), looks at the financial efficiencies of joining or establishing a Single Academy Trust (SAT) [read more]
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