To save or not to save?
Ed Balls tells schools to make £750m savings
Schools urged to turn out lights and share cleaners to minimise future cuts
Fronm the Guardian
Schools have been told to share cleaners. Photograph: Dan Chung
Ed Balls today ordered schools to tighten their belts, setting out measures to save £750m a year by turning the lights off, cutting back on heating [...]
Ofsted vs QCDA?
We’ve heard that in some inspections, schools are being criticised for not teaching functional skills within the context of the Diploma Line of Learning.
Surely this can’t be right - I thought a key point of functional skills was transferable skills irrepsective of context.
Is this ofsted getting it wrong?
Posted by Jonathan Wells of guroo, leaders in [...]
A million young people not earning or learning Number of school-leavers not in education, work or training tops a million for the first time, figures show
Fron the Guardian - 19/11/09,
The number of school-leavers not in education, work or training has topped a million, the highest total on record, government figures reveal today, prompting accusations that ministers are failing to help young people during the recession.
Almost one in five 16- to 24-year-olds in England are “neets” (not in education, employment or training), [...]
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A million young people not earning or learning
Number of school-leavers not in education, work or training tops a million for the first time, figures show
The number of school-leavers not in education, work or training has topped a million, the highest total on record, government figures reveal today, prompting accusations that ministers are failing to help young people during the recession.
Almost one in [...]
Will council funding bring a new wealth to colleges?
Central control of 16-18 funding is over and colleges must look to their local authorities for cash. Will the change improve education?
He who pays the piper, calls the tune … it’s an adage well understood by colleges. Since 1991, when funding was taken away from local authorities, further education has been paid for by central [...]
Mandelson announces 35,000 new apprenticeships Weak college courses and up to 30 education quangos will be culled to pay for skills training
Lord Mandelson has announced plans to cull thousands of the worst college courses, and up to 30 training quangos, to pay for 35,000 apprenticeships and create a class of trained technicians.
Schools, colleges and universities are all included in the 10-year plan to refocus adult education towards practical skills training. “We need engineers to lay the cables [...]
Government bars state schools from offering International GCSE
From the Guardian on-line http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/04/igcse-international-gcse-state-schools
The government today barred state schools from offering the Cambridge University exam board’s new elite International GCSE in core subjects claiming that it would allow children to drop the study of Shakespeare at 14.
Ministers have already said they will fund a limited number of the O-level-style qualifications in state schools, but today’s announcement [...]
Is college at 14 a step too soon?
Colleges would like to admit 14-year-olds on to full-time courses, but not everyone agrees that it’s a good idea
St Helens College, Merseyside, has a new cohort of students. In September, for the first time, it allowed a handful of 16-year-olds to enrol on the college’s courses full-time.
For Pat Bacon, principal of the college, FE colleges [...]
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