Olympic news roundup for 11:21: Olympic torch cost £639 a minute through Northampton – Business News – Northampton Chronicle and Echo – ThisIs – Olympic Torch relay costs Waltham Forest second most in UK (From This Is Local London) – … Continue reading →
Tweet These are some of the education stories we found interesting between 24th-31st May 2013. Apprenticeships attract 11 applications per vacancy (BBC News) Figures released this week by the National Apprenticeship Service has found that a record 11 applications are … Continue reading →
Tweet These are some of the education stories we found interesting between the 26th April and 17th-24th May 2013. More than 300,000 children missing school every day (The Telegraph) More than 300,000 school children miss school every day according to … Continue reading →
Tweet These are the education links we found interesting between April 23rd and May 21st: Academy chains decide where children go to school | Education | The Guardian – Academy critics say the underlying issue is that trusts are allowed … Continue reading →
Olympic news roundup for 20:51: Councils count the cost of London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay | This is Somerset – “The investment we made has proven to be worth every penny and we are in no doubt it will leave … Continue reading →
Tweet These are some of the education stories we found interesting between the 26th April and 10th-17th May 2013. Blow to Olympic legacy as ‘schools are forced to cut sport‘ (The Telegraph) A study by the Smith Institute has found … Continue reading →
The Stoke Sentinel and Huddersfield Examiner have reported on Freedom of Information requests from Help Me Investigate about torch relay spending. This is Staffordshire report on the £189,730 cost of the relay to Stoke-on-Trent City Council, while The Huddersfield Daily Examiner’s … Continue reading →
Over on Help Me Investigate Education Beth Ashton writes about her experiences of discovering what appeared to be a data leak by the education regulator Ofsted – and the ethical decisions which followed: “In the end, this was a story about Ofted’s own rules not working retrospectively, or taking into account the permanence of the […]
TweetThese are some of the education stories we found interesting between the May 3rd-10th 2013. Michael Gove attacks ‘infantilisation’ of school curriculum which encourages pupils to compare Nazis to Mr Men (The Independent) Education Secretary Michael Gove attacked the school … Continue reading →
Tweet These are some of the education stories we found interesting between the 26th April and 3rd May 2013. Universities veto adverts over unpaid internships (The Times) Some of the UK’s leading educational institutions are refusing to advertise unpaid internships … Continue reading →