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F40 in 'positive mood' after meeting with Gove

Released 29/03/2012

F40, the group campaigning for fairer school funding on behalf of the country’s lowest funded local authorities, came away from a meeting with the Secretary of State for Education feeling moderately positive

Absence is decreasing, but still a ‘serious problem’

Released 29/03/2012

The Department for Education has released figures on absence in schools, which show that although absenteeism on a whole is falling, truancy levels are not

BCS launches bursary

Released 28/03/2012

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has today launched the BCS Education Bursary in celebration of Alan Turing’s centenary year

Schools held accountable for riots

Released 28/03/2012

An independent report has said that the summer riots were triggered by a lack of support and opportunity for young people

Report calls for professionalism in further education

Released 27/03/2012

The Independent Review Panel has released its interim report outlining how professionalism should be recognised within further education

Schools become academies for the money says survey

Released 27/03/2012

Think tank Reform and the Schools Network have conducted the biggest survey of academies to date, with 478 respondents

Careers advice too little too late

Released 27/03/2012

Unison, the UK’s largest union, said today that advice being issued to schools on their new duties to provide career guidance today, is’ too little too late’

Government announces details on funding

Released 27/03/2012

The Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove today laid before the House of Commons a written ministerial statement on school funding reform

Gove: “We have to accelerate reforms”

Released 26/03/2012

Education Secretary Michael Gove has said in his speech at the ASCL (Association of School and College Leaders) annual conference this weekend that education reforms should be accelerated not relaxed

Unison outrage at profit making college

Released 26/03/2012

Unison calls on minister of state to block unprecedented privatisation of FE college

‘Football manager syndrome’ escalates in schools

Released 26/03/2012

The number of school leaders losing their jobs because of ‘football manager syndrome’ has shot up this year, the Association of School and College Leaders reports

Independent schools confident about future

Released 26/03/2012

Survey reveals 83% of independent schools are not overly concerned about falling pupil numbers

Free schools ‘a waste of taxpayers’ money’

Released 24/03/2012

Opening new schools in areas where they are not needed is a waste of money, says the Association of School and College Leaders at conference today

Low morale amongst secondary school leaders

Released 23/03/2012

Education policies having detrimental impact on standards, secondary school leaders say

Schools urged to go bright for Brake as clocks go forward

Released 23/03/2012

Bright Days give schools and youth centres a chance to promote safer roads for kids, while Lighter Later charity lobbies Westminster to put clocks forward all year round