by Chris Rogers | 23 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The latest school league tables show that more of England’s secondary schools are meeting baseline government targets on GCSEs. A total of 154 state-funded schools out of about 3,200 are classed as under-performing – 61 fewer than last year. Schools are...
by Chris Rogers | 23 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Labour Peer and former Schools Minister Lord Adonis has claimed that up to 100 independent schools are set to enter the state sector within the next decade. Lord Adonis, President of the Independent Academies Association, said that this was due to the Government’s...
by Chris Rogers | 22 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
In the autumn of 1992 two new leagues were introduced that would transform Britain. One brought new levels of competition, sponsorship and foreign talent into an environment that had long been insular and dated. The other was English football’s Premier League....
by Chris Rogers | 20 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
England’s secondary school league tables are to be split for the first time to separate A-levels from vocational qualifications. In the past, rankings combined how a school or college performed in both academic and vocational qualifications. Schools and colleges...
by Chris Rogers | 20 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
A report by the Social Market Foundation (SMF), has called on the wealthiest parents to pay the same fees to send their children to a top state school as they would to an independent school. In the report Anthony Seldon, the headteacher at Wellington College, calls...
