Category Archives: Academies

Jamie Oliver urges MPs to end academy junk food exemption

Posted on May 21, 2012 by dchan

Chef Jamie Oliver and health experts have been left baffled by education secretary Michael Gove’s decision. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Michael Gove proposes that schools set own teachers’ pay

Posted on May 17, 2012 by dchan

Schools face being given complete freedom to set teachers’ pay under Government plans to reward the best performing staff, it emerged today. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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9 out of 10 academies sell “Banned junk food”

Posted on May 15, 2012 by dchan

Nine out of 10 academies are selling pupils junk food such as crisps, chocolate and cereal bars that are banned in maintained schools to protect children’s health, research has revealed. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Schools forced to spend £328m on ‘over-inflated’ exams

Posted on May 9, 2012 by dchan

Head teachers criticised the “over-inflated” exams system today after it emerged that schools were forced to spend almost £330m on GCSEs and A-levels last year. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Academies to return £15m by July

Posted on May 9, 2012 by dchan

Funding blunder means some schools will repay 10% of budget. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Birmingham primary school teachers balloted over academy issue

Posted on May 9, 2012 by dchan

Teachers at 13 Birmingham primary schools are being balloted for strike action over plans for them to become academies, a union has announced. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Headteachers claim forced academy status is unjustified

Posted on May 8, 2012 by dchan

In Birmingham, primary headteachers say they are being forced to convert to academy status even though their schools are showing real improvement. What is the truth? {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Academy rule leaves weak schools short on support

Posted on May 4, 2012 by dchan

Report finds pool of outstanding help has ‘run dry’ in some areas {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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School maths should be more practical, say teenagers

Posted on May 3, 2012 by dchan

Maths lessons are seen as difficult, irrelevant and boring by about a third of teenagers, a survey suggests. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Can Jamie Oliver’s school meals revolution survive the Gove recipe?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by dchan

Pupils are ditching chips, hamburgers and sweets for soup, sandwiches and fruit juice at lunchtime in the wake of the school food revolution begun by Jamie Oliver, a new study reveals. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Academies: they don’t see themselves as Gove sees them

Posted on April 24, 2012 by dchan

Schools are stampeding to become academies, says Estelle Morris, but no one – least of all the government – seems to know what they are actually doing. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Public school to create chain of ‘happy academies’

Posted on April 23, 2012 by dchan

A new chain of “happy schools” is being launched by a leading public school and a former aide to the Prime Minister. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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David Willetts: admit students on ‘potential’ rather than grades

Posted on April 19, 2012 by dchan

Bright students from poor-performing schools should be admitted to university with worse A-level results than other pupils, a minister claimed today. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Teachers Unions warn on the rise of academies

Posted on April 13, 2012 by dchan

Teachers’ unions are to warn that the rapid expansion of academies in England is threatening to undermine the state school system. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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England’s schools revolution: a new progress report.

Posted on April 11, 2012 by dchan

Education in England is changing fast, and the pace of change has accelerated since the coalition came to power in 2010. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Poor pupils in weak schools face double disadvantage

Posted on April 3, 2012 by dchan

Labour says inequality, which result in poor being left a year behind richer pupils, is one of biggest barriers to social mobility. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Academies are making limited use of independence

Posted on April 2, 2012 by dchan

Academies – soon to be a majority of secondary schools in England – are showing more signs of continuity than radical upheaval, suggests a survey. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Parents blamed for bad behaviour in schools

Posted on March 30, 2012 by dchan

Over-indulgent middle-class parents are fuelling a rise in bad behaviour in the classroom by failing to set boundaries for their children, teachers’ leaders warned today. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Third of academy schools ‘cutting long summer holidays’

Posted on March 28, 2012 by dchan

Some 36 per cent of schools are altering – or planning to alter – the traditional academic year in an attempt to raise standards, it was revealed. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Education system could be completely privatised by 2015, union predicts

Posted on March 28, 2012 by dchan

England’s education system risks being completely privatised within three years, the leader of one of the country’s largest teaching unions has predicted. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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