InvolverThe strongest schools and colleges in the country are being urged to export their formula for success and collaborate with weaker schools to bring standards up to the levels of the best.
Schools Minister Andrew Adonis launched a prospectus today …..
The Government is providing up to £300,000 set-up funding for high achieving schools that sponsor less successful schools to become academies to help raise their standards.
Some weaker schools have made huge leaps More>>
Mark
Children, Schools and Families Secretary, Ed Balls, today announced that he accepts the three-year pay recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) for a 2.45 per cent pay rise for teachers from September 2008, with additional increases for some London teachers, and increases of 2.3 per cent per year from 2009 and 2010.
The principal recommendations the Secretary of State proposes to implement are More>>
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All parents will get regular electronic reports on their children’s progress in future – going far beyond the traditional annual school report, Schools Minister Jim Knight announced this week.
Opening BETT 2008, the world’s largest educational technology trade show, he said all secondary schools will be expected to have ‘real-time’ reporting systems up and running by 2010 and all primary schools two years later. Many schools already run these systems. More>>
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The government has allocated another £1 billion to children, schools and families over the next three years.
While the plan does not have direct impact on the rest of the UK it is likely that it will lead to pressure for action in similar areas in Wales, Scotland and N Ireland – not least in its approach that states that the school should be the centre of the community
It is a huge package of measures, and difficult to make overall sense of. But Tony Attwood from Hamilton House has done his best.
Nothing explicitly mentions school councils, but I’ve italicized sections that I think we could have a particular input into – Asher
News item: 08 January 2008
Ed Balls joined the Prime Minister, children, writers, and reading champions at 10 Downing Street today to launch the National Year of Reading. He called for every employer, school, library, college and local authority to get involved and sign up to the National Year of Reading by logging on to the National Year of Reading website
Mark
Well, I see it as a place where we can quickly note down our thoughts, experiences and links to news stories relating to education and participation. Primarily we are doing this for each other (and ourselves), but it may also be of interest to other people interested in school councils and School Councils UK. In fact I expect the email updates that we will be sending out to funders, members and other partners and supporters will be an edited version of this blog.
I have set up various categories that posts can be put under (they can be under more than one). We can add to and change these very easily. I think each of the category names should be self-explanatory, but if they’re not let me know.
I think if you’re going to post a link to another story or web-page it would be really good if you could include a short description of what you’re linking to. Something like, “A new government iniative to get every school child connected to broadband at home [link]” rather than just a link or, “Any thoughts? [link]”. We can link to and upload videos, mp3s, etc. in this software, so feel free to do so.
Anyway, let me know what you think and any suggestions you have by making a comment, and then write a post yourself!
Asher