schools

Pupils’ road safety work recognised

17 Jul, 2017 in Local News / News tagged road / safer / safety / schools / st helens by Ptah

Lancashire County Council is urging affected parents and carers to complete a consultation on proposed changes to its denominational home to school transport. Lancashire currently spends over £5 million on providing mainstream home to school transport. Of this amount, over £400,000 is spent on subsidising transport for pupils who attend […]

Consultation on denominational school transport

4 Jul, 2017 in Local News / News tagged consultation / denominational / faith / lancashire / schools / transport by Ptah

Today (4 July 2017) the results of the Key Stage 2 SATs tests are published. Commenting, Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT outlined the limitations of SATs data. “Currently, the methods to hold schools to account aren’t as fair or as reliable as they should be. SATs […]

Don’t judge schools by SATS data alone, says NAHT

4 Jul, 2017 in News tagged judge / sats / schools / tests by Ptah

Last week, faced with criticism that it was putting profit before children’s safety, it was reported in the press that the Government had finally caved in to pressure from the NUT, FBU and ATL not to weaken current fire safety advice to schools. Although this was welcome news, if true, it was […]

NUT, FBU and ATL Call on Government to Strengthen Fire ...

28 Jun, 2017 in News tagged fire / safety / schools / strengthen / teachers by Ptah

Report shows that government policies over the last 20 years have delivered little progress on social mobility in Britain. Two decades of government efforts to improve social mobility have failed to deliver enough progress in reducing the gap between Britain’s ‘haves and have nots’, the Social Mobility Commission warns today (28 […]

An analysis of 2 decades of efforts to improve social ...

28 Jun, 2017 in News tagged improve / mobility / schools / social / working by Ptah

This Saturday’s annual NUT Supply Teacher Conference will hear that employment prospects for supply teachers are getting tougher, as schools increasingly use unqualified staff in place of qualified supply teachers to cover teacher absence. The NUT’s 2017 supply teacher survey, which received a record 1,300 responses, shows that 41% of […]

Schools increasingly using unqualified staff to cover teacher absence

24 Jun, 2017 in News tagged absence / qualified / schools / supply / teachers / unqualified by Ptah

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