Posts on ‘March 2nd, 2010’

Schools Minister Iain Wright today welcomed the publication of the Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval (JACQA)’s first biennial review of the qualifications offer for young people. (2010/0049)
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Academics offer stark warning over future of the arts in Britain in letter to the Observer
An influential group of leading academics and cultural figures has issued a stark warning that they fear for the future of the arts and humanities in British universities.
A letter to the Observer, signed by the directors of major arts institutions [...]

Sutton Trust survey reveals widespread use of covert selection
Hundreds of the best-performing comprehensive schools appear to be covertly selecting pupils from more affluent backgrounds and blocking those from more deprived families, it is revealed today.
Research commissioned by the Sutton Trust paints a picture of a secondary education system deeply socially segregated and in which large [...]

£1,000 payment is aimed at breaking the stranglehold leafy suburbs have over the best new teaching talent
Teacher training colleges are being paid £1,000 bonuses for each of the best qualified graduates they place in the toughest state schools under a new drive to break the stranglehold the leafy suburbs have over the best teachers. Top [...]

The gap between the culturally enriched and impoverished is as wide as ever – and right now, we couldn’t even cater to the former if we tried
Statistics. Damning statistics. A speech by Paul Collard (he’s the chief of an organisation called Creativity, Culture, and Education – a body that does more than it’s quango-speak of [...]

My child has been allocated a school I don’t want him to go to, says mother Sarah Blackstock
Parents have been finding out in the post today which secondary school their 10- or 11-year-old will be attending from September. One of them is Sarah Blackstock, from Birmingham, who discovered this morning that the comprehensive her son, [...]

An immediate overhaul of English, maths and science will take place if the Tories get in, says Michael Gove
A Conservative government would immediately overhaul the national curriculum in English, maths and science – and hand control of A-level exam content to universities and academic experts to end “political control” , the shadow education secretary, Michael [...]

Lovelorn lecturers, flying Turks, glass houses and a quivering wand
He’s desperate to put the Gove into government – and the Tory shadow education spokesman seems to have no shortage of rabbits to pull out of his hat.
Last week he magicked parents into school authorities. Yesterday he tried to make Ofsted disappear. And today he’s waving [...]

Parents in London are finding out if their child got the secondary school place of their choice after a website went down.
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The Conservatives want politicians to lose control of A-levels - and they promise another curriculum overhaul.
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