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Medway GCSE results 2016: Final
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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Jane Porter, previously Executive Headteacher Whitehill Primary School,...
Jane Porter, formerly Executive Headteacher of Whitehill Primary School in Gravesend, has been found guilty of Professional Misconduct.The Professional Conduct Panel of the National College of Teaching...
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Academy and UTC news in Kent and Medway, to February
This article covers the opening of ten new primary academies, with a further eleven primary school proposals to become academies in Kent and Medway over the past five months.I also look at academies...
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Website Review of the Year 2016
This article looks back on the website and my services over the past year (and a bit) since January 2016.The year again proved very busy with 114,608 different browsers making a total of 181,752...
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Kent and Medway Secondary School Allocations 2017: Initial statistics and advice
The increasing numbers of Kent and Medway children applying for secondary school places has created different outcomes for children in the two Authorities. Whilst Kent has seen nearly 300 more children...
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A Parental View of Medway Council
I have received the following plea from a parent who moved to Medway last year and who sought my advice about primary schools. Unfortunately, it was too late for me to offer significant support, but I...
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Possible new Free Schools in Kent, including Grammar Schools
This article looks at way the plans of the government to invest £320 million to fund an initial 30 free schools including some grammar schools in the life of this parliament, as well as helping with...
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University of Roehampton: Calling all teachers holding Certificates of Education
In a brilliant initiative the University of Roehampton, which was formed out of an amalgamation of the four Colleges for Teacher Education Digby Stuart, Froebel, Southlands and Whitelands Colleges, has...
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Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School: Headteacher Resigns following KCC...
Jane Robinson, headteacher of Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School, has resigned following an intensive four month Investigation into her actions by a former Interim Director of Education for the...
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Duke of York's Royal Military School - Allegations of Cover Up of Abuse
A report in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday was headed 'MoD accused of covering up abuse claims at top Army School'. It reports that “Kent Police has launched a review into the force's alleged failure...
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Oversubscription and vacancies in Kent Grammar Schools on allocation for...
This article looks across Kent to the key oversubscription and vacancy situations in grammar schools. The main pressure point is in North West Kent with applications from SE London and north of the...
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Website Review of the Year 2016
This article looks back on the website and my services over the past year (and a bit) since January 2016.The year again proved very busy with 114,608 different browsers making a total of 181,752...
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Oversubscription and vacancies in Kent non-selective schools on allocation...
This article looks across Kent to the main oversubscription and vacancy situations in non-selective schools District by District. Thanet is the area under most pressure, with not a single vacancy in...
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Medway Test and Grammar School Allocations 2017, including Oversubscription...
This article looks at the final outcomes of the Medway Test and its effect on individual grammar school allocations in March.Last year I wrote an article exposing the failure by Medway Council to set...
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Medway Non-Selective Allocations 2017: Oversubscription and Vacancies
This article looks at the key oversubscription and vacancy situation in Medway non-selective schools, following secondary allocations at the beginning of March.The headline figure for all secondary...
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Eleven New Kent and Medway Free Schools
Updated with further information on Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School.Government has today announced approval for eleven new Free schools in Kent and Medway, amongst 131 nationally....
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Kent and Medway Primary Allocations for September 2017
The Press releases of both Kent County and Medway Councils celebrate the good news that record proportions of pupils have received offers of Primary School places meeting their preferences....
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Kent Pupils vanishing from schools before GCSE; including Oasis Academy Isle...
This article looks at the practice of off-rolling in Kent secondary schools, whereby some schools encourage some pupils to leave the school before GCSE. This may be an attempt to try and secure better...
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Comment on Report claiming 'The 11-plus is a loaded dice'
A story on the BBC website features a Report that offers misleading and irrelevant data relating the Kent grammar school selection process, issued by Education DataLab (EDL). EDL has built this on...
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Kent & Medway OFSTED Reports to Easter
Kent primary school OFSTED Reports up to Easter show considerable improvement on an already strong position as shown in the summary tables below. Outcomes include 15 schools, a fifth of the 72...
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