Tag Archive: Schools

Oct 24

Michael Gove attacks schools’ ‘low standards’ in Labour-led inner cities

Education secretary writes to MPs in areas where schools are underperforming, demanding they side with him on policy

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Sep 23

Thousands of pupils shamed out of free school meals

300,000 prefer to take a packed lunch rather than face ‘stigma’ of sitting apart from friends, research shows

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Sep 10

Junk food banned in maintained schools is being sold in academies

Channel 4′s Dispatches says more than a third sell products that were banned when the schools were run by local councils

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Aug 19

Tory councils are biggest sellers of school playing fields

Conservative authorities have been involved in six times as many sales as those of other parties since May 2010

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Aug 17

Michael Gove overruled experts to sell school playing fields

Education secretary ignored advice from panel five times over 15 months – more than in the previous nine years

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Aug 07

School playing fields: 21 sell-offs have been approved by coalition

• Michael Gove agreed sales despite pledge to protect pitches
• Pressure builds on coalition to rethink sports strategy

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Aug 06

Michael Gove’s political own goal on school sports

School sports partnerships were working until the education minister came along and axed the £162m-a-year funding

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