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.

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.

Leading Article: Fee-paying victory

Thursday, 15 October 2009

The news that the Charity Commission has climbed down and given independent schools five years to put their house in order has baffled observers. Two days after Andrew Grant, chairman of Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, had railed at the Government for making it difficult for fee-paying schools to come into line with new charity law, the commission's chairman, Dame Suzi Leather, threw in the towel. Was she really persuaded that private schools couldn't cope, or had the Schools Secretary Ed Balls read her the riot act and told her to make friends with the independent sector in advance of an election? We shall never know.