Life on death row
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It may or may not be a tragedy. But the closure of a school is always, without exception, painful: at least for some of the people involved, and at least for some of the time.Mixed feelings greeted the decision last October to close the Ridings school in Halifax - labelled in the media as the [...]
State teachers views of Oxbridge stop pupils from applying
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Teachers at state-run secondary schools are out of touch about the number of pupils from their sector who apply successfully to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, according to a survey today.More than a third think that fewer than 20% of Oxbridge students come from state schools, even though the latest figures show that the figure is [...]
Clegg prepares plans to end state intervention in schools
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Nick Clegg will unveil plans to end state interference in schools this week as he moves to bury the Liberal Democrats’ traditional approach to public services.In his first keynote speech since becoming party leader, Clegg will challenge many of the party’s supporters in teaching and local government by issuing proposals which will “effectively take schools [...]
Looking ahead
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The mince pies may be just a delicious memory and the new year resolutions already broken, but I am going to stick my neck out and make a few predictions for the year ahead.A review of school governanceLast July the government published a green paper called The Governance of Britain, which says: “The government currently [...]
Becta rewards the innovators
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There are speakers in every corner, one boy from Wyndcliffe school, Birmingham, explained about the school’s podcasting radio station. “They are in every room; everybody can hear it, all around the school.” Then he thought and his eyes lit up: “And all over the world!”Many other children in the past year have experienced what technology [...]
