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A network of local commissioners should be created to dismiss incompetent head teachers and strip failing institutions of academy status, according to England?s new chief education inspector. Sir Michael Wilshaw, the incoming head of Ofsted, said that the job of identifying failing schools should not fall on his shoulders alone as more schools become independent academies under the Government?s education reforms. He gave warning in an interview with The Times that scruffy teachers could be rebuked by Ofsted, saying that school inspection reports should comment on the professional dress and behaviour of staff. And he suggested that some school governors should be paid in an attempt to improve their performance. By the time Ofsted recognised a school as failing it was often too late, Sir Michael said, creating a need for local troubleshooters to identify problems early. He called on ministers to appoint dozens of local commissioners to decide whether to close or merge academies or replace head teachers or governing bodies where standards were unacceptably low. Sir Michael predicted that many schools would quickly join bigger academy groups with a single sponsor rather than remain as stand-alone institutions. As more schools become academies he said that it was unrealistic for the Department for Education to exercise from Whitehall the school improvement and intervention powers it took from local councils. ?I speak

The family of an Indian student who was shot dead in Salford early on Boxing Day said that they had been left shattered by his death. Two boys, aged 17 and 16, were arrested by Greater Manchester Police yesterday on suspicion of murdering Anuj Bidve, a 23-year-old postgraduate student at Lancaster University. He was visiting Manchester for Christmas with nine students, all Indians, and they were making their way from their hotel to the city centre to join the revelry and those awaiting the opening of the Boxing Day sales. Friends have suggested that Mr Bidve was checking his mobile phone GPS for directions when the group was approached by two men in Ordsall Lane, Salford, at about 1.35am. One of the men is said to have crossed the street to ask Mr Bidve for the time and the student was apparently responding in a polite manner when a handgun was pull

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A hacking group responsible for stealing thousands of credit card numbers from a US security company has announced that it will make even more damaging disclosures. Barrett Brown, an activist for Anonymous, a hacking network, told The Times that the group was preparing to release 2.7 million e-mails obtained from Stratfor, the intelligence company that it hacked over Christmas. Anonymous has posted online more than 30,000 credit card numbers belonging to clients of Stratfor. They include executives from HSBC and Barclays, a member of the House of Lords, the chief executives of multinational companies and a student from the University of Cambridge. Anonymous said on Monday that it intended to use the credit card details to donate about $1 million to charity. Known as ?the shadow CIA?, Stratfor uses a vast global network of sources to create daily inte

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Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/cricket/article3269544.ece

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