by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that A-levels and GCSEs in arts subjects in England, such as history and geography, are to be made more “rigorous and demanding.” They will be taught from September 2016, alongside changes to A-levels in RE...
by Sam | 8 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Olly from PSI: There are 22 non-Ministerial Government agencies in England, from HM Revenue and Customs to the Food Standards Agency to Ofsted. These bodies have a significant amount of power but, as their names suggest, they are mostly independent from Ministerial...
by Sam | 8 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Thousands of schools will need to improve their kitchens in order to introduce Nick Clegg’s policy of providing free meals for infant school children, according to figures attained by the BBC. Through a series of freedom of information requests, the BBC found...
by Sam | 7 Apr 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
Children from poor families should be given priority places at primary schools as part of a drive to close the gap between rich and poor, according to HM Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw. Sir Michael said the school admissions code in England should be overhauled...
by Sam | 3 Apr 2014 | Children and Families, Economy
Ofqual has announced that it will link GCSE grades to levels achieved by pupils in China, Singapore and other countries deemed to be high-performing. The change, made by the exams regulator, will come into force from 2017 in response to a written request from the...
