Tests for 11-year-olds are just as important as GCSEs and A-levels in holding schools to account, Gordon Brown declared yesterday.
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Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Brown says primary Sats must stay
Gordon Brown says Sats must stay for 11-year-olds to ensure school accountability.
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Foreign language teaching is in decline
A dearth of trainee modern foreign language teachers is hampering a Government drive to ensure all children start learning another language from the age of seven.
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Government diplomas ad banned
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Advertising campaign claiming that a qualification could get school leavers into any university is ruled misleading
A government advertising campaign claiming that a qualification could get school leavers into any university has been banned by the advertising watchdog for being misleading.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families ran a [...]
Infant place appeals up by a half
Almost 50% more parents appealed over the infant school places their children were given last year.
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Sharp rise in parents appealing primary school places
Mini-baby boom, recession and greater parental awareness of choice cited for increase in applications and appeals
There has been a sharp rise in the number of parents appealing to get their child into the primary school of their choice but the number who are successful has fallen, government figures published today reveal.
Some 86,020 families in England [...]
Half a million submit appeals for school places
The number of disappointed parents who have appealed against their child’s school allocation is set to top half a million today, according to new estimates.
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Rise to the challenge: Stand out from the crowded jobs market with a Masters in business management
With one in 10 of this summer’s graduates expected to be unemployed six months after leaving university – a sharp rise on previous years – applications for postgraduate courses have jumped. It seems that recent graduates, frustrated by the toughest jobs market in more than a decade, are taking to heart recent findings from [...]
A clearer future: Why sustainability graduates are in hot demand
It’s not a word you would have seen in course titles 10 years ago, but Masters courses in sustainability have been popping up in many universities and business schools over the past few years. One of the first was at the Centre for Research Into Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London, which offers an [...]