January 19, 2017 at 01:10PM A Gloucestershire academy that started a “grammar stream”, giving a small group of children access to specialist teachers and lectures at a nearby private school, will continue the project for at least another year and may expand the model. Swindon academy last year launched an “elite” academic curriculum for up […]
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January 19, 2017 at 01:10PM Academy sponsors banned by the government from taking over new schools seem to have dodged the prohibition. Figures obtained by Schools Week show that 57 sponsors at different times have been put on the government’s “pause list” and told they cannot take over new schools. Bans remain in place for
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January 19, 2017 at 01:10PM Grammar schools are pocketing tens of thousands of pounds from mock 11-plus tests, fuelling worries that reintroducing selective schools will “end up assessing wealth not ability”. Sutton grammar school’s parent teacher association (PTA) openly advertises the sale of mock tests at £28 a pupil to help to prepare them for
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January 19, 2017 at 07:36AM Can a group of Swiss teenagers find a solution to housing displaced people, using virtual reality? Video journalist: Joe Miller at the World Economic Forum in Davos from BBC News – Education & Family http://ift.tt/2jscvUovia IFTTT
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January 19, 2017 at 05:23AMOne of my aims as a teacher is to get my pupils to cultivate their curiosity. This stems from my belief that the reality we inhabit is full of wonder and beauty and that we, as a species, have spent millennia trying to make sense of it. Curiosity will continue to
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January 18, 2017 at 11:37PM Parents can choose not to be complicit in building border controls in our playgrounds – and so can schools, says Martha Spurrier. The spring school census started this week. For the second time this academic year, parents and guardians have been asked to share their children’s nationalities and countries of
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