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Schools Are Not Businesses. A Message to Lord Nash.

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Lord Nash, speaking at the Challenge Partnership national conference, titled his talk: ‘what is relevant in business to education?’ According to the TES, he said that: “…too often teachers have confused their individuality with their professionalism… Being a professional means embracing accountability, standardisation and consistency, although of course we want our teachers to be inspiring.” He went […]

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George Osborne: north-south divide in schools needs urgent attention

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Former chancellor’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership calls on ministers to take action to close England’s education gap Ministers need to pay “urgent attention” to the growing north-south divide in England’s schools, George Osborne has said, as he warned of an alarming brain drain of graduates from the north. In the first report by the Northern Powerhouse

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Schools can raise girls' aspirations by partnering with businesses

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Students from disadvantaged backgrounds aren’t always aware of the opportunities open to them. We’re working to change this The absence of aspiration and understanding of opportunities that I see in some students from disadvantaged backgrounds – especially girls – is something I want to address directly. I believe the answer to the lack of female

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Every child should have the right to a nursery education | Letters

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Following the article by Sally Weale (What society gives their youngest less chance than their parents had?, 31 January), we were delighted to have the threat to maintained nursery schools (MNS) highlighted this week. Nursery schools’ greatest assets are their trained and dedicated staff, which includes qualified teachers (QTS), with expert knowledge of child development

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Public school defends role in alleged cover up of abuse at Christian camps

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Winchester College knew in 1982 about allegations of abuse at the camps but says it didn’t go to the police to save the victims further trauma One of Britain’s leading public schools has been forced to defend its role in an alleged cover up of serious physical abuse at Christian summer camps attended by its

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My little children were detained because of a toy gun. Prevent has gone too far | Anonymous

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I bought my five- and seven-year-old sons a toy gun in a supermarket. What happened next has changed our feelings about our place in Britain On the penultimate day of spring term 2016, my children – aged five and seven – were detained in isolation after school for nearly two hours and questioned by police

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Dear Justine Greening, whatever happened to ‘eradicating illiteracy’? | Michael Rosen

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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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‘We’re not hippies, we’re punks.’ School that has projects, not subjects, on the timetable

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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

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Nursery schools: ‘What society gives children less chance than their parents?’

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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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