Bucks Learning Trust finds it difficult to access academy

From the Bucks Herald reported Amanda Taylor-Hopkins, director of education at the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust said she was finding it ‘difficult to get in’ to the Aylesbury Vale Academy (requires improvement by Ofsted) asked why standards were so different between two schools she said: 'The answer about why they are so different at this point I can’t give an answer to because we have not at this point been into Aylesbury Vale Academy. We are trying to get an appointment there but as you know it is an academy and it’s more difficult to get into.'

Fear of 'external sponsoring agencies' prompts Bicester schools to form academy trust

From Buckingham Today: 'The Cooper School and neighbouring Glory Farm Primary School will become Bicester Learning Academy on July 1. The two schools are already in a federation partnership.'

Primary Academy given permission to sponsor up to two more primaries

From Bucks Free Press: 'Chepping View Primary Academy has announced it has gained the approval of the Department for Education to sponsor up to two other primary academies.'

Gove appeals council's decision on Sikh free school site

From Get Bucks:'Michael Gove submitted an application... rejected unanimously at the South Bucks District Council planning committee in January. Now Mr Gove has re-applied...

E-Act's Buckinghamshire cluster will not shrink or grow

From Get Bucks: 'A SCHOOL in the process of becoming an academy will no longer be taken over by the charity E-Act (which has to transfer control of ten of its 34 academies to new sponsors)... It has now been confirmed that the three existing E-ACT academies in the south of the Bucks are not among the schools affected.'

Buckinghamshire free school's permanent residence refused due to traffic

Get Bucks: http://www.getbucks.co.uk/incoming/permanent-free-school-plans-refused-6492850

'The application to change the use of Pioneer House, in Hollybush Hill, Stoke Poges, which is home to Khalsa Secondary School, was unanimously refused at yesterday’s planning committee meeting...'
'...Councillors said they refused the application due to the significant impact the increased car traffic would have on the local roads at peak hours and the poor public transport available as an alternative.'