David Olufemi Olaleye
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Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of virology professor and leading researcher, David Olufemi Olaleye.
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The pandemic completely disrupted normal school life. Being part of a multi-academies enabled schools to support their pupils, their staff and their communities.
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Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of engineering professor and university administrator, Professor Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe.
School funding doesn’t add up.
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Children in classrooms – particularly in disadvantaged areas – are already feeling the very real effects of funding cuts.
The government has been criticised for a lack of accountability for academies.
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More bad news for academies as new findings show deepening divisions within English education system.
Africa’s public schools have problems, but charter schools and academies can’t fix everything.
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There are huge challenges in South Africa’s public schools. The question is whether using public-private partnerships is the correct way to address them.
Grammar schools: moving with the times.
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Are grammar schools a force for good in England’s reformed education system?
Out of the classroom and onto the streets.
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Dealing with inequality should be the main priority.
The rules for schools could change.
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Local education authorities have mediated the RE syllabus for decades. Now, there might be a free-for-all.
Nicky Morgan: under pressure.
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Plans to turn all schools into academies by 2022 have caused a crisis within the party.
Resistance is mounting to Nicky Morgan’s plans to convert all schools into academies.
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The government’s plans could come with many hidden costs.
Schools: pushed into becoming academies.
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An academic, and parent at a Manchester school that has chosen to become an academy, says surely there is a better way.
The countdown has begun to turn all schools into academies.
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It will take time, but a education system governed by Regional Schools Commissioners might not be more reliable.
Get ready: Nicky Morgan announces big changes ahead for schools.
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Unpacked: academy ramp-up, new teacher qualifications and school funding formula.
Where to from here?
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Five ways children will lose out by forcing all schools to become academies.
Building a bridge to…?
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The system of oversight of England’s academy schools has been criticised by MPs.
On average, more pupils in the South get five A*-C grades at GCSE than the North or Midlands.
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Can schools in the North and Midlands replicate the success of those in the South of England?
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The new wave of academies created since 2010 are very different to those that went before.
A protest against the academisation of the Hewett School in Norwich.
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As children head back to class this week, another school will be opening its doors for the autumn term as an academy – in spite of opposition from parents and the community. From early September the Hewett…
Ed Balls and Gordon Brown opening the 200th academy school in 2009.
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Struggling schools that were given more autonomy in the early 2000s improved GCSE results for their pupils.