Unions representing college employees say millions of pounds is being wasted on agency staff and consultants.
More …
Posts on ‘July 2nd, 2009’
Colleges’ agency spend attacked
Ofsted Inspection of Progress in Haringey Safeguarding Services
Please see attached for a letter from HMCI Christine Gilbert to Children’s Secretary Ed Balls and another from Ed Balls to the Leader of Haringey Council, Cllr Claire Kober, in response to Ofsted’s Inspection of … (2009/0124)
More …
Delyth Morgan: Local authorities must support young runaways
- 100,000 children under 16 run away each year in the UK … (2009/0121)
More …
Delyth Morgan: Local authorities must support young runaways
- 100,000 children under 16 run away each year in the UK … (2009/0121)
More …
Delyth Morgan: Local authorities must support young runaways
- 100,000 children under 16 run away each year in the UK … (2009/0121)
More …
Delyth Morgan: Local authorities must support young runaways
- 100,000 children under 16 run away each year in the UK … (2009/0121)
More …
Balls’s five-year licensing system to get rid of bad teachers
• Heads will have to undertake assessments• White paper pledges extra help for gifted pupils
Teachers will need a new “licence to teach” to work in state schools, which will be reviewed every five years and revoked if they are not up to scratch, under plans to eradicate poorly performing staff from the English education system.
The [...]
Desmond Tutu asks G8 leaders to get world’s children into school
Nobel laureate implores Gordon Brown and Barack Obama ahead of G8 summit to create new global fund for education by end of year
Desmond Tutu has “implored” Gordon Brown and other G8 leaders to redouble their efforts to give a basic education to the 75 million children out of school across the world.
Tutu, a Nobel peace [...]
A third fewer jobs are on offer for graduates
Nearly all sectors have cut posts and most top employers have already filled their 2009 vacancies
University graduates face “significantly reduced” job prospects this summer, according to a poll of Britain’s top 100 companies, which shows there are a third fewer graduate vacancies than last year.
Almost all of the top employers have already filled their 2009 [...]
Cheshire county council ‘wrote off’ girl who never went to secondary school
The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 2 July 2009
We were wrong to say in the article below about a local government ombudsman’s ruling on a case of maladministration by the former Cheshire county council that the Cheshire East council said it would co-operate with Chester council and [...]