Posts on ‘October 6th, 2009’

Tories would return powers to teachers, shadow schools spokesman argues
A Conservative government would favour a return to rote learning and setting pupils by ability to give all students a basic fact-based knowledge once they left school, the shadow schools spokesman, Nick Gibb, said today.
The Tories would strip away bureaucracy and return power to teachers in [...]

Maggie Atkinson has been nominated to become the next Children’s Commissioner for England.
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Outgoing vice-chancellor says university budgeting to make loss for fourth year

Oxford University faces “grave” risks and needs more than £1bn investment in the next decade to bring its “unfit for purpose” facilities up to a world-class standard, the institution’s outgoing vice-chancellor warned today.
Giving his parting speech at his successor’s inauguration ceremony, John Hood admitted that [...]

A-levels should be brought forward to prevent school leavers from losing their places at university while their papers are being remarked, the head of the exams watchdog said today.

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Home secretary pledges to tackle a backlog in student visa applications by Pakistanis after thousands are hit by delays.
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University courses important to the economy rely on private schools for many of their students, says research.
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County Cork girls’ school St John’s says drained finances mean students will have to supply toilet tissue
It is a cost-cutting measure that could have come from the era of Frank McCourt’s misery memoir of poverty and deprivation, Angela’s Ashes. As the Irish government tries to plug the black hole in the country’s public’s finances, a [...]

The multi-million-pound revamp of a secondary school in Wolverhampton looks set to be postponed as teachers want more time to improve students’ exam results.
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