After more than two years of deliberating, the Department for Education has finally approved a batch of new free schools, including three sixth-form colleges that will be funded and mentored by Eton. This trio of academies will be opened in Dudley, Middlesbrough and Oldham – areas which contain some of Britain’s most deprived boroughs. The Times has previously revealed that these colleges will
GCSE results 2022: Private schools saw a large fall in grade 7 and above GCSEs this year when exams returned. Schools Week looks at what the data tells us .