Politics

Website highlights links between London’s schools

A digital resource to showcase partnerships between state and independent schools across London has been launched. Funded by the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

How many schools should we be trying to help?

The question may not be how many coasting or failing schools need help, but how many we have the...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Another brick in the wall. . .

Primary school pupils are building up their knowledge of construction techniques after a lesson put on by their neighbouring...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Graham Stuart, Wendy Baxter and David Blunkett

Graham Stuart is the new vice chairman of the fair funding for schools campaign, f40. The former chair of...

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Nicky Phillips
Politics

Essex team nets top prize – again

Greensward Academy’s under-16s girls’ basketball team slam-dunked their way to victory again at this year’s national schools’ champion. Competing...

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Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Twenty-seven years on from the national curriculum

Will the 2015 drive for curriculum entitlement succeed where 1988 and the national curriculum did not? We’ve been here...

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Nicky Phillips
News

New Ofsted complaints ‘committees’ will have just two members

Ofsted’s newly announced scrutiny committees, which will review complaints about inspections, will comprise of a Her Majesty’s Inspector (HMI)...

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Nicky Phillips
News

DfE runs ‘targeted’ consultation on academy rules

The Government has quietly launched a “targeted” consultation over plans to rewrite regulations that enabled a sole staff member...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Ofsted’s ‘double visits’ will extend into secondary schools

Ofsted plans to extend dual visits to secondary schools from September as a test of its new short inspections....

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Nicky Phillips