by Sam | 13 Aug 2014 | Education & Children's Services
In what is a fairly peculiar initiative, an alternative and independent school league table has been launched by a partnership of school leaders associations and an academy chain. The School Performance Tables were launched by United Learning, the Association of...
by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The Government has announced businessman and academy chain trustee David Hoare as the new chair of Ofsted. Hoare, who has over 30 years’ business experience with companies including DX group and Virgin Express, had been a trustee of the Academies Enterprise Trust...
by Sam | 30 Jul 2014 | Education & Children's Services, Whitehouse News
A majority of Britons (55%) believe that parents should be able to take children on holiday for a week if it means a “significant financial saving” for the family, according to a new ComRes poll commissioned by political communications and education policy specialists...
by Sam | 28 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015
The Whitehouse Consultancy, the specialist political consultancy that hosts PSI, has produced a short research paper which examines the future of the education procurement market in the UK after the next General Election. The way schools do business has changed...
by Sam | 28 Jul 2014 | Education & Children's Services
A survey of 82 of England’s councils by the Times Educational Supplement suggests 335 of the 957 expanding primaries it received information on are losing outdoor space. More pupils will use the same area in 54% of these schools, the survey says.The government...
