Serious Fraud Office inquiry
NEU calls for Serious Fraud Office inquiry into Collective Spirit Free School and Manchester Creative Studio School.
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Free schools policy
NEU research reveals staggering cost and failure rate of the free schools policy.
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Education Policy Institute on Free Schools
This report is an important reminder of the reality behind the Government’s rhetoric on free schools.
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Boris Johnson on Free Schools
The Government’s academy and free schools programme is in crisis. Almost 70 ‘orphan schools’ do not have a sponsor and yet the Government recklessly wants to expand the programme.
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Free Schools
Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary NEU comments on Free schools: The next 10 years, a report by the New Schools Network which calls for the 92 ‘orphan’ schools rated inadequate to be taken over by parent and community groups rather than wait any longer for a suitable academy sponsor.
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New Free Schools
Commenting on the announcement of 22 new free schools, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary NEU, said: “After nine years of this failed policy, the Government’s claims about the successes of the free schools project ring hollow."
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Free schools - launch of new application criteria
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the NEU comments on the Department for Education’s launch of new application criteria for free schools.
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Free schools
The reality of Free Schools has not matched the overblown promises.
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NEU comment on announcement of 53 new free schools
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Government’s latest announcement of 53 new free schools and one UTC.
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Increase in new free schools
The Department for Education’s (DfE) has announced that more free schools will open this term.