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Posts on ‘January 21st, 2009’
SECONDARY BUILDING PROGRAMME INCREASES MOMENTUM AS 50TH BSF SCHOOL OPENS
Sacked head ‘devastated’
A former head teacher credited with turning around a school faces a disciplinary hearing.
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Banking ‘threat’ to new schools
A scheme to renovate England’s secondary schools could grind to a halt because banks are not lending money, the building industry warns.
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Dame Jean Else tells tribunal she was ‘devastated’ at losing job
One of Labour’s first school superheads, who was made a dame after transforming a school with the worst truancy record in England, told a tribunal today of her devastation at being dismissed from her post.
Dame Jean Else, the former head of Whalley Range high school for girls in Manchester, was sacked in 2006 after an [...]
School building project could grind to a halt
A £45bn scheme to renovate every secondary school in England could grind to a halt because of the credit crunch, MPs were warned today.
The construction industry admitted it was struggling to raise the finance needed to take part in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, which aims to rebuild or refurbish every secondary [...]
King’s students stage sit-in over Gaza
Students at King’s College London are staging a sit-in protest on campus over the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the honorary doctorate bestowed on the Israeli president, Shimon Peres.
In the latest of a flurry of occupations at English universities in response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, more than 100 students took over a lecture [...]
Autistic traits ’spread widely’
Many children have mild autistic “symptoms” which never get specialist attention, say UK researchers.
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‘Superhead’ ennobled by Labour could be struck off
One of the first school “superheads” to be ennobled under Labour is to face charges of unacceptable professional conduct at a disciplinary hearing today. Dame Jean Else, former headteacher of Whalley Range High School for Girls in Manchester, will go before a professional conduct committee of the General Teaching Council.
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Scheme for gifted pupils ‘is a failure’
A flagship scheme was accused of failing the brightest schoolchildren, with one in seven pupils marked as gifted and talented failingto get five good GCSEs. Official figures show that 11,628 pupils on the scheme did not achieve the government benchmark of five A* to C grades, including maths and English.
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