The Department for Education (DfE) has approved the sponsor for a new primary school.

GEMS Learning Trust was yesterday confirmed to run the new school to open on the Great Western Park development in Didcot in September 2015.

About 9,000 new homes are set to be built by 2026, creating a need for up to 4,000 school places.

Oxfordshire County Council recommended to the DfE that GEMS runs one primary school and Glyn Learning Foundation runs another primary and a secondary school.

Concerns had been raised in December after it was revealed GEMS Education UK and Europe chief executive, Sir Peter Birkett, had resigned following the launch of an investigation into another organisation he previously ran.