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A total of 142 schools will convert to the status this year, increasing the number by half, but still falling short of the government's projections for its education 'revolution'
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Figures obtained by the BBC suggest that in one in nine Scottish primary schools at least 60% of places are unfilled.
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Gordon Brown is to devote time to unpaid education and internet projects, his spokesman says.
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Evan Harris, writing in the Guardian today, shares his blueprint for better RE teaching. He says that the evolution-creationism debate in schools should take place in RE lessons as well as science lessons: Secularists like me believe that RE is a valid subject for study in the curriculum but should be about what different religions
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Gordon Brown has written movingly in The Huffington Post of his support for a huge, co-ordinated response to the recent Pakistan floods: I have proposed a global reconstruction corps to offer civilian help – engineers, doctors, builders – to build homes, rebuild the schools, staff the hospitals and get agriculture and industry moving again. We have set up a British corps – and a ...
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We expect Lib Dem minister to be confused about reality and woolly - after all they have self selected for that. But Gove and Willetts are treading a dangerous line. Here are two headlines ( one for each of them ): Middle class to lose its grip on best state schools Why does a Tory minister want to be a Stalinist social engineer? What do they both have in common ? Social engineering to paper of th...
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Private companies should be allowed to take over the running of state schools, the outgoing chairman of Ofsted has said.
submitted by Telegraph 4 days ago (via telegraph.co.uk)
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The news that a motion criticising free schools was to be debated at the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference caused a rush of excitement among journalists looking for their next “coalition splits” angle. This lazy interpretation ignores the strong tradition within the Liberal Democrats of having open debate and grassroots influence on policy. Although I disagree
submitted by LiberalDemocratVoice on 28th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
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The UK in the era of comprehensive state education has had very different views on school size depending on the age of children. A typical local authority provides small schools for 5-11 year olds. This means they can be close to the homes of the parents. The Head can know all the children in the
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Michael Gove, education secretary, may drop planned restrictions on religious groups and private schools taking part in the first wave of his free schools "revolution" in order to bolster the likely numbers taking part
submitted by FT on 28th Aug 2010 (via ft.com)
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