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Jabed Ahmed

Jabed Ahmed is a reporter at Tes magazine

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£2m donation boosts Lift Schools’ surplus
Lift Schools, the fifth biggest multi-academy trust in England, says it is increasingly looking at income beyond government funding to support its schools

General
29 January 2026
Lift Schools receives £2m donation
Primary MAT’s finances improve despite school-level deficits
Bath and Wells Diocesan Academies Trust’s latest accounts reveal 10 schools with a combined deficit of £775,000
General
29 January 2026
Stack of pound coins
Trust’s merger masks £1m deficit
The Harbour Schools Partnership publishes its first accounts since it was formed in April 2025 from the merger of Ventrus Multi Academy Trust and Tarka Learning Partnership
General
29 January 2026
Merger income masks £1m academy trust deficit
DfE writes to schools to push universal RISE support
The universal RISE school improvement programme is being promoted as an optional offer available to all schools – separate from targeted RISE support for specific schools
General
26 January 2026
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson is promoting the government's RISE school improvement schemes
The supply of secondary teachers ‘will fall after next year’
The pipeline of new secondary teachers will increase in the short term but drop off in 2027-28 and beyond, NFER analysis suggests
Secondary
23 January 2026
Secondary teacher supply to fall after next year, forecast suggests
Schools need ‘ecosystem’ of experts for inclusion drive, DfE told
After co-hosting a series of public engagement events on upcoming SEND reforms, the Council for Disabled Children sets out the key messages for the government
General
22 January 2026
The government has been told schools need an ecosystem of experts to call on to support inclusion.