Students at a Devon-based school aim to uphold the image of Father Christmas, says Catherine Quinn
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Posts on ‘December 17th, 2008’
Jobless offered skills training
Millions are to be spent helping people in England who face redundancy find new jobs or develop new skills.
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Simon Jenkins: All this public waste is born of a macho bigness fixation
Organising an examination for Britain’s teenagers should not be too tough a job. For half a century, local government managed it. Yet from the moment testing was nationalised under the Tories it went berserk. Ministers floundered, claiming to “need to know” everything about the nation’s young. In the decade from its introduction by John Patten [...]
Sats agency scrapped and bosses suspended after inquiry pinpoints blame for tests fiasco
The exams agency has disbanded the body responsible for Sats and suspended its two most senior executives in an attempt to regain credibility after it was condemned for its “massive failure” to prevent the collapse of this summer’s tests.
After a five-month inquiry into what went wrong with this year’s Sats, Lord Sutherland, the former [...]
Ethical hacking course launched
A new course is offering members of the public the chance to learn how to become a professional computer hacker - without ever leaving the house.
The lessons in so-called “ethical hacking”, which is used by internet security companies to counter computer crime, are being offered for the first time as a distance learning course by [...]
‘Complacent’ watchdog failed to spot exam chaos
A culture of “It’ll be all right on the night” meant exam watchdogs failed to spot warning signs over the Sats fiasco, a report says.
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RESPONSE TO OFSTED 2008 ANNUAL PERFORMACE ASSESSMENTS
Responding to the Ofsted 2008 Annual Performance Assessments Ed Balls, Secretary of State, for Children, Schools and Families, … (2008/0292)
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