Posts on ‘March 31st, 2010’

Researchers say many pupils excluded from school for disruptive behaviour are simply displaying symptoms of autism
Scores of pupils risk being unfairly excluded from school because their autism is mistaken for naughty behaviour, a study published today has found.
Researchers at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, asked teachers in 16 primary schools to fill [...]

More funding is needed to send school pupils in England on trips outside the classroom, according to a report by MPs.
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A teachers’ leader has described plans to allow parents to set up and run their own schools as “barking mad”.
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Pupils at a Lichfield primary school have been getting out and about this term as part of a programme to offer real life experience.
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A £30 million super-school has been hailed as a vital part of a Staffordshire town’s future, but for a long-established rugby club it could spell the end of an era.
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More than 100 extra pupils will be accommodated with the multi-million-pound rebuild of a crumbling Walsall primary school. The old Christ Church C of E is to be demolished
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Staffordshire University has come under fire from a senior academic for offering a “Mickey Mouse” degree in celebrity journalism.
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Seventeen staff at a Black Country school will lose their jobs when the axe falls on the doomed secondary, it emerged today.
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Schools could be forced to pay cancellation fees if they fail to attend a popular outdoor pursuits centre used by hundreds of Black Country youngsters each year in a bid to raise extra income.
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The long-awaited revamp of a school which hit national headlines because of its crumbling state may stall indefinitely, it was claimed today.
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