A £300,000 project to spruce up a Black Country park has been halted after school expansion plans were scuppered.
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Posts on ‘November 11th, 2009’
School expansion halted by councillors
Dawn Primarolo: Both parents to have the right to register their child’s birth
Children’s Minister Dawn Primarolo today launched a consultation on new rules aimed at ensuring that wherever possible births are registered by both … (2009/0211)
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School governors are ‘powerless ‘pawns’
A new study suggests school governors, traditionally amateurs holding the professionals to account, are losing their role. Does it matter?
School governors, the largest group of volunteers in Britain, are on the frontline of what could be a battle for the future of state education in Britain.
The traditional role of this unpaid and often unnoticed army [...]
Our favourite school dinners
The nation’s favourite is a roast followed by sponge pudding with custard. But what else is (literally) on the lips of UK schoolchildren?
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Training places face spending axe
England’s further education and skills budget could lose tens of thousands of training places under money saving plans.
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Fees review
Who is student fees chief Lord Browne?
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Pay as you learn
What are the options for student funding?
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Loan strangers
Part-timers want a fair share of student support
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Confidence in exams system ‘less’
Public confidence in the examinations system has dwindled, the head of a leading exams board claims.
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Iran angered by Oxford scholarship in protester’s name
Iranian embassy criticises Queen’s College for naming philosophy scholarship after student killed in Tehran protests
Iran has criticised an Oxford University college for setting up a scholarship in the name of a student killed during protests in Tehran over the presidential election.
Queen’s College announced the graduate scholarship in memory of Neda Agha-Soltan who died in June [...]