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Medway Test Scores Blunder - Medway fails families yet again
Update in progressMedway Council has failed to report this year's Medway Test results to parents correctly, causing considerable distress to families. You will find the full story below, but first,...
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Which Kent Primary Headteacher enjoyed a salary rate of £155,000 plus last year.
Following my previous article on‘How School Bosses Spent your Millions’ which referred to one Kent Junior School headteacher who ‘earned’ over £100,000 a year, I have been asked a number of times if he...
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5 Live Investigates Lilac Sky and Others
The Radio Five Programme, ‘5 Live Investigates’ has broadcast a programme (available here on i-Player) about Academies and personal financial benefit which includes a strong section on Lilac Sky...
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New Buckinghamshire Anti-Grammar School Group Opens
Residents of Buckinghamshire may be surprised by a new Anti-Grammar School Website called Local Equal Excellent (LEE) which was registered on 23rd September 2016. Browsers of this website may be...
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Kent Test Results 2016, Initial figures
Kent Test results have now been published with the pass mark the same as last year, an automatic pass being awarded to candidates scoring 106 on each of the three sections - English; maths and...
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Provisional 2016 GCSE Results for Kent
NOTES: The media have not covered this story in general at at the time this article was published, as they are waiting for government to provide downloadable tables to enable them more easily carry...
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Provisional 2016 GCSE results for Medway
NOTES: Parts of the media, including the BBC, have not covered this story at the time this article was published. This may be because they are waiting for government to provide downloadable tables to...
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Radio Kent's Big Grammar School Debate
Not Quite finished yet, but Posted to give Notice that Radio Kent (96.7 orhere) will be broadcasting a recording of the debate at 9 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, followed by a discussion. The Big Grammar...
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Kent and Medway School Appeal Outcomes 2016
Each year, I collect Appeal data for every secondary school in Kent and Medway that has Admission Appeals for Year 7 entry, and for those primary schools whose appeals are organised by the two Local...
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Secondary and Special Schools OFSTED 2015-16: Performance still Strong and...
For the most recent school year, Kent and Medway had fifteen secondary schools given full inspections between them, with 73% being assessed as Good or Outstanding, well above the national percentage of...
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Holcombe Grammar School: A second try for Chatham Grammar to go co-ed
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT), which sponsors Holcombe Grammar School (previously Chatham Grammar School for Boys) is again consulting on making the school co-educational from September...
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Further analysis of Kent test results for Admission September 2017
I have now had further opportunity to look at data relating to the recent Kent Test outcomes for Admission in September 2017, with a summary of the statistics below. This article expands my initial...
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An interesting Media Week
Although I have been on holiday in France for the past ten days, I have still been involved in two important stories featured in the media this week, with headlines: Can grammar schools really...
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Kent & Medway Primary School Performance: 2016 Key Stage 2 Results
Update and Correction Saturday 17th DecemberThere is a sea change in measuring performance in primary schools this year with parents facing a barrage of statistics to assist in school choice and the...
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Holcombe Grammar School: A strange second try for Chatham Grammar to go co-ed
The Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT), which sponsors Holcombe Grammar School (previously Chatham Grammar School for Boys) is again consulting on making the school co-educational from September...
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Holcombe Grammar School: the Second Co-education Consultation
Since I wrote a month ago about the second Consultation launched within a year by the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) to turn the boys’ Holcombe Grammar School (HGS) into a co-educational school...
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Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust; The end to a profitable enterprise
The nine Lilac Sky Academies in Kent and East Sussex have just two three more days before the unlamented Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust (LSSAT) closes down on Government Instruction and the schools...
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Jane Porter ex-headteacher of Whitehill Primary School: Disciplinary Hearing
Jane Porter, ex Executive Headteacher of Whitehill Primary School in Gravesham, is facing a Teacher Misconduct hearing in front of the National College for Teaching and Leadership beginning on Monday...
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Maidstone Girls and Invicta Grammar Schools: Sixth Form Admissions
The pressure to achieve results has resulted in the two girls’ grammar schools in Maidstone both adopting apparently unlawful tactics to secure top A Level grade performance, at the expense of the...
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Kent 2016 Final GCSE Tables
This article updates and replaces an earlier one covering provisional results published in OctoberThis year the long established 5 A*-C GCSE league table including English and maths has been scrapped,...
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