Marie Cahalane reports on our pupil premium polling. A “growing” number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere, new polling shows. BT News…
Pupil Premium: money matters, but nothing more than the teacher
…expensive and doomed effort, and, anyway, schools in challenging areas already received significant funding to reflect the needs of the communities they serve. I’ve always been more of an optimist,…
Sathnam Sanghera: We got rid of empire, now we must fight for social equality
…British calls “the supercilious vanity” of the Foreign Office to our internationalism (three quarters of Brits have passports, compared with less than a third of Americans), tabloid jingoism, food, clothing,…
How can a whole borough have no A-levels?
Sean Coughlan quoted Sir Peter Lampl in an analysis for BBC News online of Knowsley’s lack of A-level provision How could there be an entire local authority in England where…
Alliance urges more effort to provide decent education for all children
…potential. The pupil premium has a big role to play here alongside a national programme for highly able students.” Read the full PA report at the BT.com news site here…
Sir Peter Lampl: Budget Announcement Response
…sporting activities for less advantaged pupils. However, the news that all schools will become academies is a further huge step away from academies’ original purpose of tackling failure in schools…