Schools
Niel McLean: Technology can bridge the gap between parents and schools
Parental engagement is vital to a child’s learning and known to help raise attainment. Good communication with schools enables parents to learn more about their child’s progress, lesson plans and grades whilst also helping to identify any development or performance issues early on.
Inside Schools
Leading Article: We need a crackdown
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Ian Craig, the Schools Adjudicator, is a man on a mission. He wants to get the message out to parents that lying to secure a place for your child in a popular school is wicked. It is a form of "theft", he says, because it deprives another child of a place, and we should be saying wherever we can that this is not right.
Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Cherie Blair, QC
Thursday, 5 November 2009
'I wasn't at all the best-behaved girl'
Education Quandary: My husband and I are getting divorced. Will this harm our children's education, and what can we do to prevent it?
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Tackling the North-South divide: How a northern sport is migrating to schools in the South
Thursday, 5 November 2009
It was once a sport strictly confined to the toughest mining towns, but rugby league is now firing the imaginations of school pupils south of Watford, reports Steve McCormack
Why has the popular head of a Catholic school in west London been suspended?
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Cardinal Wiseman School in Ealing, west London, is proud of its headteacher. Its website trumpets a "track record of outstanding achievement" beginning in September 1997 when "a new headteacher, Mr Patrick, arrives." The school's GCSE results in 1998 and 1999 were the best it had known. In 1999 it was named the second most improved school in London by the Times Educational Supplement and one of the country's best technology schools by the Technology Colleges Trust. The next year Ofsted called it "outstanding". And so on, pages of it, right up to another "outstanding" from Ofsted in 2008 and one from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster this year.
Education Quandary: Is there really a right age for children to start school? Why do we spend so much time arguing about it?
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Digital resources: Find out what teachers think of the latest educational products to reach the classroom
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Education Quandary: Parents have been banned from drinking lager at the school gate. What other school gate behaviour should we clamp down on?
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Dude alert: How to keep beach teens in the classroom
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Young people who are mad about beach sports can follow their passion at an academy that gets them through A-levels and into university.
Making the grade: The Kent school pupils who are leading the way for thousands of others
Thursday, 15 October 2009
A year ago King Ethelbert's was a sink school. Today it is one of the most improved in England and Ed Balls thinks Kent schools could learn a lesson from it.
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