Category Archives: Free Schools

Student Premium: Help for children on free school meals

Posted on May 21, 2012 by dchan

Nick Clegg is to propose introducing a student premium to guarantee financial help for all those who receive free school meals when they enter higher education, reports claim. {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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Rupert Murdoch meetings with Michael Gove over free schools

Posted on April 25, 2012 by dchan

News International expressed an interest in applying to set up a free school, after plans to establish an academy in east London fell through, according to Rupert Murdoch’s witness statement to the Leveson inquiry. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Most free schools take fewer deprived pupils than local average, figures show

Posted on April 24, 2012 by dchan

Three-quarters of free schools have lower proportion of children eligible for free school meals than average in local authority. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Leading universities criticise ‘misguided’ admissions targets

Posted on April 20, 2012 by dchan

Top universities are being told to set “ambitious” new targets to increase the number of students recruited from poor homes and underperforming schools. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Half of free schools still negotiating sites for autumn opening, minister says

Posted on April 16, 2012 by dchan

Labour attacks gamble with education as supporters urge rethink of way ‘hundreds coming forward’ will find premises. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Data shows demand for free schools

Posted on April 12, 2012 by dchan

New Free Schools, set up less than a year ago and free from local authority control, are hugely over-subscribed, according to Government figures. {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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Free schools ‘wasting millions of pounds’, NUT claims

Posted on April 10, 2012 by dchan

Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money is being wasted opening flagship free schools in areas with large numbers of spare places, teachers warned today. {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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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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ASCL says opening free schools may be waste of money

Posted on March 26, 2012 by dchan

Opening free schools in England where they are not needed is a “shameful” waste of taxpayers’ money, the leader of a head teachers’ union has said. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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NUT strike warning over plan to slash summer holidays

Posted on March 23, 2012 by dchan

Teachers are threatening strike action in an attempt to block plans to cut the long summer holiday claiming that they work in ‘the most stressful occupation’ and need a lengthy break. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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The shocking truth about state schools: they’re good

Posted on March 21, 2012 by dchan

The local comprehensive has new allure for private-school loving parents, and not just because it’s cheaper.  In the classroom, 11 heads are bent studiously over sample A-level papers. A girl in a smart black jacket highlights a question. The only … Continue reading →

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Bingo hall used as emergency school in admissions crisis

Posted on March 20, 2012 by dchan

Teachers are being forced to stage emergency lessons in make-shift classrooms amid a surge in demand for primary education caused by immigration and rising birth rates, it was revealed. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Start small, think big

Posted on March 14, 2012 by MThompson

Private provider wants to run 2,000 schools, with John Lewis-style bonuses for staff {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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There’s more to you than your subject

Posted on March 13, 2012 by MThompson

If we want children to succeed in the 21st century, we need a new kind of teacher, says Peter Hyman. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Rugby free school aims to tackle the disengaged

Posted on March 12, 2012 by MThompson

Leicester Tigers-backed college would inspire post-16s with sport. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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First ‘free’ sixth form oversubscribed

Posted on March 6, 2012 by tburr

Teenagers are clamouring for a place at a new ‘free’ sixth-form college, even though it offers just 12 subjects, the Guardian asks why? {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Free-school applications reopen with ex-soldiers and evangelicals in running

Posted on February 14, 2012 by tburr

Phoenix, Christian Family Schools and Manchester grammar among those planning free schools for autumn 2013. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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