Posts Tagged ‘school places’

Education, Policy Thu 17 Apr

Who runs our schools – no choice for parents

Almost 40 years ago the then Prime Minister Jim Callaghan made a controversial speech on education. Delivered at Ruskin College in Oxford, it was widely seen as a challenge to the “ secret garden” of the education world; a place inhabited by unaccountable teachers, a nebulous curriculum and most definitely off limits for the political […]

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Education, Other Articles Fri 6 Sep

Planning of school places should rest with local, not central, government

Children packed like sardines, foreigners flooding in, temporary classrooms crowding out play space. The language used to illustrate the current chronic shortage of primary school places in England is emotive. And understandably so. The fear of not getting a school place for your child strikes at the heart at every parent. The fact that we […]

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Education Tue 8 Mar

How do we decide if we ‘need’ a new school

Published in Guardian Education today How should we decide what constitutes ‘need’ for a new school? This, I predict, will be one of the most furiously contested issues of the next few years. Giving any willing group the chance to set up a school may sound appealing on paper, but the devil will be in […]

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