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Yorkshire students miss out in race for Oxbridge
THE “unacceptable” extent to which Northern schools are eclipsed by their Southern counterparts in supplying students to Oxford and Cambridge has been revealed in data provided to MPs.
Yorkshire students miss out in race for Oxbridge
THE “unacceptable” extent to which Northern schools are eclipsed by their Southern counterparts in supplying students to Oxford and Cambridge has been revealed in data provided to MPs.
1 commentSecondary ‘minnow’ faces axe as just 40 seek place
York’s smallest secondary school is set to close because of falling school rolls and changing demographics.
Universities seen as key to opening doors for top jobs
FIVE times as many parents and students in Yorkshire believe the main reason to go to university is to get a good job rather than receiving a well-rounded education, new figures reveal.
Golden opportunity for Olympic volunteers
Volunteers at the Olympics will be able to achieve a national qualification to help them find work after the Games have finished, it has been announced.
MP calls for details of school plan
MP Denis MacShane has again expressed his dismay at the refusal of the Department for Education to reveal details of the proposal for Rotherham Central Free School in his constituency.
Fee-paying Yorkshire school battles ‘scandal’ claims of sacked whistleblower
A PRIVATE Yorkshire college is in a court battle with a former guardian of 30 of its Chinese students who has accused it of putting its under-performing pupils into a separate school.
Court told welfare fears for pupils led to sacking
A YORKSHIRE school removed a guardian from being responsible for its international pupils after “serious and genuine concerns” about their welfare, a court has heard.
4 commentsTV and computer time ‘no substitute for parental love’
For small children learning language skills, watching TV and using computers are no substitute for a parent’s love and attention, according to leading psychologists.
Boy of 7 accused of racism for asking classmate why he is brown
A LOCAL authority is being urged to get a child accused of making a rascist remark back into the classroom.
4 commentsSchools formula exploits dinner data
Poorer parents are being let down by some “short-sighted” schools that encourage them to claim free dinners to gain extra Government funding, campaigners have suggested.
Ministers reverse university fees plan
Plans to impose penalties on students who pay off university loans early are being ditched, the Government is expected to announce next week.
Praise on menu for innovative school cafe
A CAFE which gives young people with autism with the chance to gain work experience at their school has been praised by inspectors.
Students’ president fears split based on wealth
A STUDENT leader who has been appointed onto a new higher education commission has warned that Government’s university reforms could segregate the rich and poor.
Thank you and goodbye to ta and seeya as academy rejects slang
AN academy is urging youngsters to leave slang at the school gates to give them a better chance of getting a job.
London second best city in world to be a student says survey
LONDON has been named as the second best student city in the world behind Paris in the first ever global rankings announced today.
More pupils skip lunch
ONE-IN-SEVEN youngsters go without lunch on a typical day, new research suggests.
Memorial lecture launched
A PROGRESSIVE educational thinker from Yorkshire who co-wrote a best-selling book that played a key role in the debate over comprehensive and selective schooling is to be commemorated by a prestigious new annual lecture.
80 Yorkshire schools threatened by Ofsted downgrading
MORE than 80 “outstanding” schools in Yorkshire could lose their status under tougher new inspection rules because their teaching is not good enough.
Full list of Yorkshire schools threatened by Ofsted downgrading
YORKSHIRE is set to have fewer outstanding schools and more being placed into special measures as a result of the latest shake up of the Ofsted inspection regime.
Minister says young ‘should always be reading’
SCHOOLS Minister Nick Gibb said that children should “always have a book on the go” as he announced plans for a new national reading competition.
‘Excellent’ rating for private prep school
STAFF and pupils at a private prep school on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales are celebrating an inspection report which rates both the quality of its teaching and pupils’ achievements as “excellent”.
Teenagers forced out of college by ‘inadequate’ fund says charity
TEENAGE students from poor backgrounds are being forced to drop out of college because the Government’s replacement for the Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) is “unfair and totally inadequate”, according to a new report.
Cambridge shadows chosen
FOUR Yorkshire students are the first from their inner-city school to be given the chance to shadow undergraduates at Cambridge as part of a programme aimed at helping them apply to the world’s top-ranked university.
New head says British schools ‘have gone soft’
A YORKSHIRE headmaster who has returned to Britain after working in the Far East has warned the country has “gone a bit soft” in accepting the idea that children should not be allowed to lose or fail.
Exclusive: Mystery of a Chuckle Brother’s ‘ghost’ school with no staff or pupils
THE launch of one of the Government’s flagship free schools, backed by a television entertainer and hailed as “outstanding” by Michael Gove, has been thrown into doubt with no confirmed premises, staff or pupils in place – despite supposedly being due to open in eight months.
Exams crackdown set to hit region’s schools
THE number of secondary schools failing to hit GCSE targets in Yorkshire could surge as a result of a Government crackdown on the number of vocational qualifications used in league tables.
Lego bricks help build understanding of science as toy finds role in classrooms video
PLAYING with Lego might seem more like an activity for a playgroup than a secondary school science lesson.
‘Perverse incentives’ claim over current league tables
YORKSHIRE MP and select committee chairman Graham Stuart has told Education Secretary Michael Gove that the current league tables create “perverse incentives” for schools to ignore their most and least able pupils.
1 commentSixth-form teachers to strike over cuts and pay
SIXTH-FORM college teachers are to stage a walkout in a row over cuts to funding and pay, a union has announced.
Blunkett warns over vocational exam ‘trashing’
FORMER Education Secretary David Blunkett has warned ministers they risk downgrading all vocational education by carrying out a “wholesale trashing” of the current system.
Huge fall in number bidding to study in Yorkshire
Applications to Yorkshire universities have slumped by more than 20,000 as new figures suggest the region is being hit harder than the rest of the country by the Government’s £9,000 tuition fee hike.
Gove takes axe to 3,000 ‘soft’ school subjects
JUST 70 vocational qualifications will count towards a school’s GCSE performance in league tables in future - a cut from more than 3,000 under the current system.
Role of higher fees debated as university applications plunge
A teaching union has become the first to accept the Government’s controversial pension reforms, breaking the unity which saw two million workers go on strike last year.
Universities in region ‘set to buck trend’ on applications
YORKSHIRE could be well placed to buck the trend of falling university applications as higher fees come into force, a higher education chief has claimed.
Grammar schools top tables for new ‘E-Bacc’
THE HEAD of the Yorkshire school with the best English Baccalaureate scores in the region believes the performance measure will soon be used by universities and employers as way of finding the best candidates.
Hear informed debate: Yorkshire shame over number of schools stuck in bottom set
ONE in five of the very worst-performing schools at GCSE in the country is in Yorkshire according to league tables which reveal that 25 secondaries in the region could be at risk after missing Government targets.
Thousands still being let down by poor schools
THOUSANDS of teenagers are still failing to get good GCSE results after being let down by under-performing schools, new league tables suggest.
Secondary School league tables in full: Barnsley, Hull and Bradford among UK’s worst
SCHOOLS in Barnsley, Hull and Bradford have achieved some of the worst GCSE results in the country according to new league tables published today which show for the first time the extent to which pupils from poorer backgrounds struggle to achieve at secondary school.
3 commentsBoom in primary age children piles even more pressure on struggling system
THE NUMBER of children at primary school is expected to rise by a fifth over the coming decade, official figures suggest.
Labour MP hails report of U-turn by coalition on private universities
A YORKSHIRE Labour MP has welcomed claims the Government is preparing to shelve plans to allow private firms to set up state-funded universities.
City views inspire young pupils
SIX primary school pupils have had their work chosen for an exhibition showing “Views of York” in a competition run by the city’s civic trust.
Class three years ahead of rest
A class from a school in Hull have passed their English GCSEs three years early.
Tory criticises Government on GCSE targets
EDUCATION Secretary Michael Gove is set to face the nation’s questions next week as he gives evidence to Graham Stuart’s committee.
The Leeds school that runs anger management courses for five year-olds
PRIMARY school pupils as young as five in Leeds are being offered anger management classes to curb bad behaviour.
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