Finland’s answer to a slip in standards is to put more ‘joy’ into the curriculum. We visit a school in Yorkshire that aims to show the UK could do the same ‘New core curriculum for basic education emphasises the joy of learning,” reads a recent headline on a government education website. This new, more joyful […]
Few doubt the value of nursery schools, yet many could close as early as July thanks to government plans for free childcare Kate Daenke is sitting in the headteacher’s room at Homerton early years centre in Cambridge, recalling her childhood years at the nursery school. She remembers her headteacher and many hours spent playing in
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But government lawyers argue parents should not be allowed to take children from school ‘when the sun is out’ Parents will be criminalised on an unprecedented scale if judges reverse an earlier ruling that overturned a ban on term-time holidays, the supreme court has been told. Lawyers representing Jon Platt, who was fined after taking
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In 2011 the schools minister trumpeted the benefits of phonics teaching. But a quarter of seven-year-olds’ literacy skills still haven’t made the cut Back in 2005, the BBC reported David Cameron (you’ll remember him), then shadow education secretary, saying: “The biggest problem facing education today is the fact that one in five 11-year-olds leaves primary
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With 57% of maintained nursery schools rated ‘outstanding’, it seems madness for them to face cuts. If anything, their remit ought to be extended The prospect of state-maintained nurseries closing en masse sounds the lowest note of the austerity politics. Maintained nurseries have enjoyed a level of Ofsted success that the rest of the education
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Government formula will cut budgets at 70% of capital’s schools already enduring funding freeze, London Councils says More than 1,500 schools in London will move to larger class sizes and fewer teachers under the government’s proposed national funding formula, according to forecasts by boroughs in the capital that predict they will suffer cuts of £360m
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