January 18, 2017 at 02:21AM My mother, Frances Sandy, who has died of cancer aged 67, was a teacher who cared deeply about her family, her pupils and the political activism she hoped would help forge a better world. For those causes, nothing was too much effort. In 25 years of working with young children, […]
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January 18, 2017 at 01:58AM A fifth of sixth form colleges have already sent formal proposals to convert to academy status, the academies minister has revealed. Lord Nash (pictured above) made the announcement in front of more than 100 college leaders at the sixth form college association’s conference in London today. Schools Week’s sister paper FE Week previously reported
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January 18, 2017 at 01:48AM Rosalind Brotherton started her school career feeding children at lunchtime and ended up as head teacher. Mrs Brotherton, who now runs Flyford Flavell First School in Worcestershire, said she was inspired by watching great teachers. The single mum of three boys began an Open University degree when she was 30.
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January 18, 2017 at 01:28AM Schools in England’s 12 new opportunity areas will be able to bid to become ‘research schools’ and split a £3.5 million funding pot to help other institutions use evidence-based practice. Education secretary Justine Greening announced earlier today she was extending the £72 million ‘opportunity areas’ programme into another six areas,
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January 17, 2017 at 10:33PM The government is being urged to create more opportunities for British people to learn languages such as Polish, Urdu and Punjabi as a means of improving social cohesion in local communities. Recent inquiries looking into obstacles to social integration in the UK have highlighted the importance of immigrants learning English
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January 17, 2017 at 09:27PM The government should consider scrapping teacher assessments of writing at key stage 2, a senior Ofsted official has said. Joanna Hall, the watchdog’s deputy director for schools, told MPs on the education select committee this morning that the government should “have the debate” about whether to “remove teacher assessment entirely” from writing in
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