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How many Free Schools?

There are going to be 400 Free Schools and with 230,000 places across the UK. David Cameron announced a further 49 Free Schools across the country in March with the laudable intention of give all children access to a ‘good’ local school. This new batch will bring the...

Prepare for Life After School

Part of: Reforming qualifications and the curriculum to better prepare pupils for life after school, Children and young people and Schools Issue Employers, universities and colleges are often dissatisfied with school leavers’ literacy and numeracy even though the...

Practical education, what’s the value?

How disappointing that there are plans to remove practical experiments from GCSE science GCSE Assessments. My kids love this aspect of science, I still recall the excitement of my son when he recounted the experiment where some chemical was thrown in water and...

What time should I arrive at the school?

Normally you will have been sent an assignment confirmation notification which details the start time and finish time. It also includes the number of minutes before the assignment starts to arrive by. Some schools are very large so if one was teaching in the science...