Opinion

State boarding schools: Partnerships: ‘Failures are not an option’

Holyport College, the first new free school to offer boarding places, opened in September and will eventually take 500...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

State boarding schools: Governance: ‘A multitude of extra requirements’

Strong governance and leadership are as essential in a state boarding school as they are in any other school....

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

State boarding school special — for: Vulnerable children, quite literally, cost us a fortune

State-funded boarding schools run as a school, not as a care home, are the best solution for children failed...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

State boarding school special — against: It is the children who have to live away from home

If the government wants vulnerable children to be placed in boarding schools, what pastoral training will be given to...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Politics

Rooney goes back to school

It was like England football captain Wayne Rooney had never been away when he recently went back to his...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Politics

Phab award for London schools

Pupils and staff from St Helen’s School and Merchant Taylors’ School in North London have won a national award...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

School funding changes: made simple

The way in which the Dedicated Schools Grant, one of the main components of school funding, is calculated is...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Politics

Ananda remembers fallen relative, 100 years on

A Cornish schoolgirl has become the first in her family to see the grave of a relative who lost...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Politics

Sikh free school shows off

Children from Leicester’s first Sikh free school recently showed off their new school to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips