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Nigel Ford: How far down the egalitarian path should comprehensive schools go?

Having heard some of the debate on the recent Policy Exchange about grammar schools (although the acoustics weren't great) I felt Fiona could have done with someone more on her wavelength in her corner. Believers in the comprehensive school system oppose private and grammar schools, not least for their use of selective exams which determine their intake creating a social apartheid, ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Gemma: "That makes sense - I don't see why, as a teacher, you'd want to do it any other way...."

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Sarah Dodds: Skegness Academy: An Unmitigated Success?

This week, the Skegness Academy received an outstanding Ofsted report. Everyone involved at the school should be congratulated - whether you are pro or anti-academy, success is success. However, a quick scratch underneath the surface reveals few questions that need to be answered before the pro-academy brigade get too carried away with themselves. Let us look at the previous Ofsted report from ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by adam @ butlins skegness caravans: "It was a really positive report although I understand the need as you say to not get "too carried away". Lots of questions to be answered seeing as it was such a sharp turnaround over the course of 18 months. As ......"

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Fiona Millar: Free schools able to opt out of the Admissions Code

I am grateful to David Wolfe, a barrister at Matrix Chambers, for pointing out that free schools appear to have special freedoms to exempt themselves from the Code of Practice on School Admissions. David has spent much of the last decade examining and challenging the legal basis for academies and free schools. His website A Can of Worms is a ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Rosie Fergusson: "My interpretation of one aspect of the draft admissions code is to serve the failed independent schools being rescued and reborn as a free school . Where the school operated aptitude testing when independent they will be allowed to continue ......"

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Anita Malhotra: How come my kids cannot go to the local school because they are the wong religion, even though my taxes fund them?

I find it infuriating that faith schools discriminate against children on the basis of religion. Religious discrimination would never be tolerated in the work place so I am not sure why it still exists in the school system. Lets be clear - i am not talking about closing faith schools, I have no problem with my non christian children having a ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by lyla: "Why has this petition been closed?..."

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Avis Johns: Too many single sex, faith and selective schools mean no choice in Barnet.

The middle of the night terror. There's no secondary for my daughter! Can I move, tutor or magic a solution? But its a waking nightmare too. Here in East Finchley, Barnet's decision to provide a 'choice' means that my 10 year old cannot go to a local school. But she could if she were a) male, b) Catholic or c) admitted ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Susan: "Surely with all the secondary schools in Barnet (and there are plenty non-demon) open the catchment area( which are already as said before, if not on their doorstep forget it), We need to make positive changes in the GREAT schools ......"

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Adrian Elliott: Tim Brighouse Lecture at the Oxford Education Society 16/09/2011

Just come across this and thought I would share it in case anyone missed it. Will comment later when I have time to read it properly read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Janet Downs: "Nick Gibb's latest pronouncements about the thousands of children failing to achieve 3Rs at Level 1 and about the wide gap between children on free school meals and the rest were based on some faulty statistics and a glaring arithmetical ......"

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Ed Rushton: New website to show reception admissions info

We have a young son and were planning to move house to a new area (in north London). Given the experience of friends and family, we realised that our house search would need to take into account the local schools. However, we didn't realise that it would end up being driven entirely by schools. I started researching schools and had a ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by Tracy Hannigan: "Hi there! Can I ask how the data gets updated and how often it is refreshed? Thanks!!..."

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Christine Phillips: I’m fighting for a place in a school for my daughter

No school place in Haringey? Try homeschooling. That's what I was told by Haringey Council when my application for a reception place left my daughter without a school. It’s been more than three weeks since the start of the new term. While everyone we know is proudly taking their children to school in their crisp new uniforms, my four-year-old daughter is ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by jane denyer: "This has become a common problem, In my opinion there should be (A) funding for parents to Home School their children or (B) There should be funds allocated to put that child into a private sector placement in the catchment ......"

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gaurav: Ensure that every state-funded school opening in Richmond from now on is inclusive, so that no child can be denied a place in a good local school because of the religion or belief of their parents.

Rising pupil numbers mean the borough needs more secondary schools. Sites are hard to find and money is tight. Yet the Council has given top priority to offering a site for a Voluntary Aided Catholic school, which will effectively be closed to a majority of the borough's children. It needs to think again. For more details please visit this site. read more and comment →

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Melissa Benn: School wars

Below, a piece that appears in today's G2 about possible links between the inequality in our school system, and government policy, and the summer's disturbances. Also, a trail for my book, to be published on September 5th, on the battle for a fairer system of education.   The crisis facing Britain's education system The gulf between schools educating the well-off and the disadvantaged ... read more and comment →

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Latest comment by stephen: "yeah that was to prepare for the schools to use ...thank you......."

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