A tiny revolution
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Arrive at the entrance to St Mary’s RC primary school in Grangetown, Middlesborough, and you’d think a bomb had gone off. In fact, around half the school has had to be demolished after a devastating arson attack last October causing almost %26pound;1m worth of damage. Currently without hall, ICT suite or library, its 150 pupils [...]
School beckons to a nation in debt
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All of us earnestly hope that a good education will equip our children with meaningful life skills beyond just a competent grasp of the three Rs. But will it be enough to prepare them for a slowing economy? Will our children leave school with even enough financial nous to understand a mobile phone tariff or [...]
David Dabydeen The loosetongued ambassador
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Professor David Dabydeen writes fiction and poetry between midnight and four in the morning, sustained by cigarettes and occasional slurps of red wine. Teaching is for the afternoon and early evening. “Going to his lair in the Warwick humanities building is not unlike visiting a rum shop, but without the rum,” says his friend John [...]
The insiders
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The youth support team is a new tier-two, wraparound service aimed at supporting young people and families (11-19) who are clearly at risk but who wouldn’t meet the threshold for social services intervention. We are funded to reduce Neets (young people not in education, employment or training), by offering a multi-agency response.The service is all [...]
The art of becoming famous
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Unless you are aiming for a Nobel prize, a university education isn’t always the best way to become famous.Those three or four years could be better spent in a drink and drugs hell from which you later extract a harrowing memoir, or in having plastic surgery.But university is always a good place to practise future [...]
Ministers attacked over school fields sale
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A flagship government initiative to regenerate children’s play and exercise areas has been undermined by the revelation that last year the Education Secretary and his predecessor personally agreed the sale of 19 school playing fields.Despite government promises made over the past decade that playing fields would be carefully protected, at least 187 fields have disappeared. [...]
Army offers bursaries to boost recruitment
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The British army is to introduce a bursary scheme for thousands of school leavers in an effort to boost recruitment and raise the calibre of candidates, the Guardian has learned. The scheme, which mirrors the American model where many join up to acquire qualifications, will offer %26pound;1,000 to those who sign up but first wish [...]
Drinkfuelled antics Not our fault say students
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A blonde student lifted her glazed eyes to the camera, held up her drink and smiled. She was wearing stockings with a lace slip and had ripped her T-shirt in half to reveal her bra.She was on an organised pub crawl in which hundreds of undergraduates lurched from bar to bar as they cheered, laughed [...]
Government HE access target unrealistic say Tories
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The government’s pledge to have half of young adults in university by 2010 is doomed to fail as new figures show participation rates have hardly risen over the last eight years.Preliminary figures for the past academic year, released yesterday showed the proportion of 18- to 30-year-olds in higher education was just 39.8%, up from 39.2% [...]
Building in a college Hire the locals says Denham
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Construction firms seeking building contracts in colleges will have to provide apprenticeships and training schemes for local people if public money is involved, ministers announced today.It is the first time in any major procurement programme that companies will be contractually obliged to invest in the skills and training needs of staff, said John Denham, secretary [...]
