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Posts Tagged ‘Department for Education’

Opening of free school close to Hackney Marshes delayed after Department for Education steps in

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 20 December 2016 at 09:22
An artist's impression of the Barclay Secondary Free School. Image: Lion Education Trust

Project manager for Barclay Secondary Free School acknowledges ‘difficult setback’ following Waltham Forest Council opposition and decision by Whitehall

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Unregistered Jewish school shut down by Ofsted ‘flouting order to close’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 24 October 2016 at 14:09
Talmud Torah Tashbar was operated from a site behind Stamford Hill’s New Synagogue

Department for Education’s investigation into Talmud Torah Tashbar still has not concluded eight months after it was launched, it has emerged

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Former Hackney ‘superhead’ banned from teaching for life by Education Secretary

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 3 June 2016 at 10:44
GREG WALLACE best start federation hackney headteacher

Nicky Morgan rejects advice and bans Greg Wallace from teaching indefinitely over £1m financial misconduct

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Number of Hackney children ‘in need’ rises by almost a third

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 6 April 2016 at 12:43
Photograph: Tom Hull

Over one thousand children at risk of abuse or neglect at home, new figures also show

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Illegal Jewish schools: council denies cover up over ‘missing’ children

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 5 April 2016 at 11:40
Stamford Hill Street

Council education chiefs accused of ‘destroying’ evidence of Jewish children dropping off education system

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Investigation launched into claims Stamford Hill Jewish school defied closure order

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 31 March 2016 at 13:28
Stamford Hill Street

Talmud Torah Tashbar’s rigid curriculum taught no lessons in English, Ofsted inspectors found

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Hackney teachers denounce plans to force schools to become academies

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 21 March 2016 at 17:50
northwold primary school academy status

Announcement is ‘distraction from the severe teacher shortages and school places crisis’, claims Hackney NUT

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Mary Wollstonecraft statue on Newington Green could receive government backing

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 9 March 2016 at 10:28

Department for Education has ‘expressed an interest’ in providing official support for the campaign

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Hackney pupils beat national average in GCSE results

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 28 January 2016 at 14:49
Hackney students outperform in GCSE results Urswick student Khadijat Lawal

Percentage of Hackney students achieving benchmark of five A*-C grades almost seven points higher than England average

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‘Unprecedented’ cuts to schools’ per-pupil funding loom

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 January 2016 at 15:00
Hackney NUT members on strike at BSix College today. Photograph: Lucy Capes

Hackney’s schools could lose £51 million a year, claims teachers’ union

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Former superhead wrongly appointed to DfE post due to ‘administrative error’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 7 December 2015 at 17:13
Greg Wallace

Greg Wallace resigns from government advisory role after Department for Education alerted to ongoing investigation

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De Beauvoir Primary investigated over exam ‘maladministration’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 November 2014 at 14:24

Key Stage 2 test results annulled as Department for Education investigates administration of school’s exams

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Register, criminalise or ignore? Hands tied over Stamford Hill yeshiva schools

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 August 2014 at 14:27

Unregistered faith schools are no secret, but they aren’t likely to enter the state system anytime soon

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Over ten ‘illegal’ yeshiva schools operating in Stamford Hill

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 July 2014 at 13:18

Channel 4 Dispatches programme says it is “shocking” that government and council have known of unregistered schools since 2008

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Improved GCSE results in Hackney, but are our schools making the grade?

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 February 2014 at 11:28

Results were up again in 2013 but a closer look at the data reveals a nuanced picture

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Academies fail to make grade on good GCSEs, study shows

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 14 March 2012 at 09:09

New exam results analysis shows academies are not outperforming local authority schools – despite additional government funding

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