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True parent power means sticking by your local school
The way schools are run has changed dramatically, says Fiona Millar – but some may suffer if they are given more freedomIt is exactly 18 years since I first became a governor at my local primary...
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Teachers 'lack confidence' to give sex education lessons
Parents want children to be given information on safe sex and contraception, survey findsMost teachers in England do not have the confidence to talk about sex with their students, according to a report...
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BNP members to be barred from teaching
Education secretary pledges new powers for heads to dismiss teachers who are members of groups with 'extremist tenor'Headteachers are to be given the power to dismiss teachers who are members of the...
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Governor: steady hand on the tiller
Philip Capper, a marine enforcement officer, has ensured his local school stays out of choppy waters for 22 years"His son might have left school nearly a decade ago, but if he ever thinks of retiring,...
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Kirkby Stephen gets the UK's first co-operative converter Academy
The strong community's comprehensive wins the chance after holding Outstanding Ofsted status for a fourth yearAs is only proper, when you recall where the Rochdale Pioneers came from, the north has...
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Why are school governors so old and white?
New research shows the chairs of school governing boards are 97% white, and 92% over-40There's a gaping divide between chairs of school governing boards and the communities they are meant to represent,...
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BNP threatens protest at headteacher's home over sex education proposals
Far-right party orders Grenoside Community primary school in Sheffield to drop 'evil plans bordering on paedophilia' to extend syllabus to infant pupilsBritish National party activists have warned a...
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Letter: Sex education and BNP ignorance
When I read your report of the demonstration by the British National party outside Grenoside community primary school in Sheffield, in protest at plans to give sex education lessons to pupils (Report,...
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Headteacher quits Downhills primary school amid row with Michael Gove
North London school at centre of academy row confirms Leslie Church's resignation after latest Ofsted inspectionThe headteacher of a school opposed to the government's academy programme has quit after...
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We dared to resist the forced academy conversion of Downhills and were fired...
Michael Gove has shown he disregards the views of local people by sacking and replacing our primary school's governorsSix months ago I volunteered to become a local authority-appointed community...
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Letters: Schools must resist pressure to convert to academies
Schools subject to the government's despicable bully tactics over forced academisation ('We thought we would be left alone', Education, 8 May) will be perplexed to learn that many schools with a choice...
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Education in brief: not-very-free information from the government
Freedom of Information seems in short supply; Downhills school continues its fight against Michael Gove; next up in the recruitment of DfE sympathisers - governorsOpaque governmentA freedom of...
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Thomas Disken obituary
My father, Thomas Disken, who has died aged 79, set up his own solicitor's firm in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, in the 1960s. This venture, together with the family of eight he raised with my mother,...
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Ofsted chief calls for paid school governors
Sir Michael Wilshaw demands more professionalism and challenges firms to encourage staff to become governorsBusinesses should order staff to become governors at their local schools, the Ofsted chief...
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Letters: School governors' arrangements ripe for review
Having castigated almost everyone except his own organisation and his political masters for the parlous condition of state education, Michael Wilshaw has now rounded on governors (Pay school governors...
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Performance-related pay for teachers gives the wrong results for schools
PRP could be a disaster, says one headteacher – and paying governors would solve no known crisis in school governanceIs it my imagination or have the past few months been dominated by debate about...
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Governor: steady hand on the tiller
Philip Capper, a marine enforcement officer, has ensured his local school stays out of choppy waters for 22 years"His son might have left school nearly a decade ago, but if he ever thinks of retiring,...
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Kirkby Stephen gets the UK's first co-operative converter Academy
The strong community's comprehensive wins the chance after holding Outstanding Ofsted status for a fourth yearAs is only proper, when you recall where the Rochdale Pioneers came from, the north has...
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