Today’s Education in the media blog looks at a report from the Children’s Commissioner about vulnerable children, funding for schools and an Independent School roundtable at Number 10.
...to double their current 15 hours offer to 30 hours. Parents also said that they were planning to increase their working hours. Others said the additional hours made it worthwhile...
Education Secretary Justine Greening has written a piece for the Telegraph celebrating the work of educational establishments striving to drive social mobility and her plans to end selection by house price.
...who do not necessarily benefit from the pupil premium but whose families may be only just about managing. It also increases the total funding directed specifically to deprived pupils to...
Today’s news review looks at our plans to encourage independent schools to set up or sponsor a local state school in order to drive improvements in education, and local concerns in West Sussex about school funding. Independent schools Today, Monday …
Today’s education news review includes coverage on term time holidays, the pupil premium and an Islamic independent school in Birmingham.