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Tag Archives: school finance
School cuts or taxing the rich?
The school cuts of around £3 billion are being presented as a necessary saving because of the need for ‘Austerity’. The School Cuts website, which has information for every school, shows that 99% of schools will have a per-pupil cut, … Continue reading
Teaching assistants on strike
drawing on research by Professor Peter Blatchford, UCL Institute of Education Teaching assistants in Durham are about to go on strike because their employer Durham County Council has decided to reduce their pay to term time only – a pay … Continue reading
Academy law jettisoned but pressure still on
A few days ago the Government formally dropped legislation that would have forced all schools to become academies. This is clearly still the ongoing aim of this Government, but the overt pursuit of this strategy has become untenable given one … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Uncategorized
Tagged academies, free schools, local democracy, politicians, school finance
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Children deserve more than slums in the sky
by Terry Wrigley School provision now in England is built on the dreams of Conservative thinkers of the 1970s and 1980s, but the dream is fast becoming a nightmare. Neoliberal ideologists in the Conservative Party thought they could dispense with … Continue reading
Children get hurt while the rich get richer
It is no wonder business leaders are keen to continue Austerity politics. Britain’s superrich have done very well out of Austerity: in fact they’ve doubled their wealth in five years, from £258 to £519bn. A recent study shows how heavily … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged disadvantage, early education, nurseries, poverty, school finance, Sure Start, welfare
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Misleading BBC headline rubbishes free nurseries
The BBC News website has just run an article under the heading: Free nursery places ‘make no academic difference’. Public interest is ill served by such casual misreading of research and the use of sensationalist headlnes. The research cited by … Continue reading
Did the Coalition protect schools spending?
Based on a new report by Ruth Lupton and Stephanie Thomson The Coalition’s Record on Schools (Social Policy in a Cold Climate, working paper 13) Summary The Coalition did protect overall school spending as promised – it rose just 1% … Continue reading
Posted in Governance
Tagged disadvantage, local authority, local democracy, privatisation, school finance
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More PISA myths part 2
Analysis by Pat Thomson and Terry Wrigley (continued) Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s director of education and skills (the man in charge of PISA), recently sent a challenging article to BBC News website. Under the title ‘Seven big myths about top-performing school … Continue reading
Not for profit?
by Nigel Gann The last 25 years have placed increasing responsibilities on the shoulders of school governors and heads, who for the most part have acted with integrity. Unfortunately, the rapid increase in academies and free schools, along with the … Continue reading
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Tagged governors, local authority, privatisation, profit, school finance
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Reclaiming Schools 