Richmond Council has accepted Kunskapsskolan as sponsor of 2 schools set to become academies. Kunskapsskolan is a Swedish company already operating 30 secondary schools in Sweden. They are independently run from the state, but still state funded. Kunskapsskolan believes that one size does not fit all when it comes to education and uses an individual [...]

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Ed Balls, Children’s Secretary has been accused of by-passing parliament when naming the new head of Ofqual, the new watchdog overseeing schools qualifications. He has been accused of not allowing MP’s to quiz the new appointee before she was named.
Kathleen Tattersall was named chief regulator of Ofqual, she had previously been chairing the interim Ofqual [...]

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After the Department of Education released there revised child safety rules, the authority safeguarding the system predict the safety vetting list will grow further past the initial 9m, so the database which is already the largest of its kind will cover even more of the population.
The revision which was leased last week, reduced the amount [...]

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Some Academy Schools have been accused of pushing some pupils down, what is seen as easier qualifications, generally the vocational ones to boost the number of high grades the schools achieve. Some of these vocational qualification are whole up to 4 A*-C GCSE grades.
The state funded but independently run schools are exempt from the Freedom [...]

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