Search results for ‘Schools’
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Labour and Lib Dems promise more schools spending
Billions more for schools across England: that’s the promise from Labour and the Lib Dems, who’ve both made substantial funding pledges to boost education. The Conservatives accused them both of “made-up promises”.
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Schools debate: Michael Gove v Angela Rayner
Former education secretary Michael Gove and the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.
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Schools funding shake-up ‘threatens teacher jobs’
Thousands of teachers and classroom assistants will have disappeared from schools by September because of a funding crisis, according to a new poll seen exclusively by Channel 4 News.
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Grammar schools and social mobility
England’s schools should be open to all – and help students from ‘ordinary working families’ – the education secretary Justine Greening has said today. She insists a new generation of grammar schools will do more to attract pupils from less affluent backgrounds.
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Boarding schools debated
Julie Robinson, general secretary of the Independent Schools Council, and psychotherapist Professor Joy Schaverien, author of Boarding School Syndrome.
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Boarding schools: bastions of Britishness or cruel separation?
In his new book, ‘Stiff Upper Lip’, the journalist, Alex Renton describes his torment at being sent away to board at the age of just eight. But he also documents the years of physical and sexual abuse that he says he suffered in school.
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Headteachers lobby MPs over schools funding
With one day left to get their views heard on new school funding proposals, headteachers of 3,000 schools in England have written to their MPs asking them to push for a government rethink.
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‘No winners’ in schools funding shake-up
There will be be no winners, even if a planned national funding formula for schools goes ahead, according to new research.
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Free schools debate
Laura McInerney, a former teacher and the editor of Schools Week, and Toby Young, the journalist and director of the New Schools Network, a charity for groups wanting to set up free schools.
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More money for free schools in Budget
The Government is to make £320m pounds available to fund 140 new free schools in England. And that could pave the way for some of the new schools to become selective grammar schools.
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Schools debate: Jo Yurky, Jules White, David O’Hara
In the studio, Jo Yurky, a parent and co-founder of the fair funding for all schools campaign, and Jules White, the head teacher of a school in West Sussex. And in Leeds is David O’ Hara the Chair of Governors for a school in Barnsley.
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Will new ‘fairer funding’ changes to schools cause more debt problems?
After years of lobbying from areas which claimed they’d been underfunded, the government has come up with a proposed new so called “fairer funding formula”.
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Government pushes ahead with free schools
Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to create 500 free schools by 2020, but at what price? According to a report from the National Audit Office, while billions are being spent on the new schools, existing state schools are crumbling and aren’t being repaired.
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Mental health: schools struggling to help support children
Children aren’t getting enough mental health support at school – according to a survey of head teachers.
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Schools ‘lose out’ from new funding formula
Teaching unions say that 98 per cent of schools in England will lose out from the new national funding formula announced before Christmas.
