6 days ago by paceni

http://www.thedetail.tv/issues/62/educational-achievement/exam-results-show-a-third-of-our-schools-are-failing The Sunday Times today, 5th February, 2012 carried a front page headline: One-third of North Schools are “failing”. The paper was not referring to Donegal. After receipt of results from the ...

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8 days ago by paceni

Good luck to all pupils awaiting their examination results for Saturday 4th February, 2012. There are no failures among them regardless of the result or score. The unregulated examinations have been conducted for the past three years without the threatened legal challenge promised by Sinn Fein’s Cai ...

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11 days ago by paceni

In late October 2009 it was widely reported that a computer error in primary school assessment results led to teachers being given false information about the performance of their pupils. The teachers had obligingly also given the false information to parents. This announcement came just weeks after ...

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23 days ago by Toby Young

The possibility that England may shortly see its first new grammar school in over 50 years has, predictably enough, re-opened the debate about selective education. Yesterday, for instance, Alison Pearson came down firmly in favour, while Fiona Millar shot back with an instant rebuttal. I'll get into ...

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25 days ago by J David Morgan

During supplementaries on a recent oral question about Grammar Schools, one intervention came from a former Lords Whip Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton: Does the Minister accept that there are those who attended selective schools who did not find them helpful? I ask him to remember that when, at the ...

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25 days ago by Adam Collyer

Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Walsall - Only UKIP Want More Schools Like This The Coalition Government is still dead set against grammar schools. Labour have been claiming that the Tories want to expand grammar school provision. Did the Government reply, “Yes, indeed. Grammar schools are the most exc ...

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25 days ago by Daniel Knowles

It's taken them a remarkably long time – this story has been growing for a month – but Labour has finally objected to the building of what are, essentially, new grammar schools, one in Sevenoaks, Kent, and another near Torquay in Devon. Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, says that, "befo ...

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26 days ago by Claire Tupling

BBC Four have just finished broadcasting a two-part series The Grammar School: A Secret History. Both episodes can be accessed via the BBC programmes page. I found the series less than illuminating, and not as analytical as it could, or should have been. The narrative of episode two focused on “the ...

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28 days ago by paceni

No words required – the video tells the story. Not one mention of the academic excellence achieved by the pupils required. Michael Gove and John O’Dowd should watch this to realise that they will never get rid of grammar schools – the next generation are already enthused. http://t.co/ahqTwLY7 Tagged ...

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54 days ago by paceni

A former Labour Education Minister, Lord Adonis, warned against giving ground to Labour critics of the Coalition Government’s “free schools” because they would seize on any concession and “move in for the kill” Lord Adonis said opponents of the schools such as the journalist Fiona Millar, partner of ...

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