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Oversubscription & Vacancies in Kent Primary schools: Allocation for...
2017 has been a very good year for Primary school admissions in Kent with 97.4% of families being awarded a school place of their choice, up from 96.6% in 2016. This has been brought about by a...
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Goldsmiths Livery Company invests in three Gravesham Primary Schools
Excellent news for three Gravesend primary schools as The Goldsmiths’ Company, a major London Livery Company, has announced a major investment of £200,000 in the schools over the next four years. This...
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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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Goldsmiths Livery Company invests in three Gravesham Primary Schools
Excellent news for three Gravesend primary schools as The Goldsmiths’ Company, a major London Livery Company, has announced a major investment of £200,000 in the schools over the next four years. This...
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Medway Test 2017: Late notification of Important Change
Update: The value of the following item is underlined by the interest shown by browsers. 1500 hits in the first two days makes this the second most popular item on the website this year - in third...
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The scandals of Oasis Academy, Isle of Sheppey
Between September and April this year, 33 children at Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey (OAIS) have ‘left’ the school to take up Elective Home Education (EHE), some having reportedly been encouraged to do...
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Lilac Sky Schools: The Trust has gone (or has it?) but the havoc lingers on,...
You will find numerous articles elsewhere in this website, most recently here, on the notorious Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust which had its schools removed by the Regional Schools Commissioner at...
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Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust: Will anyone be held to account?
The 2016 Accounts for the Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust (LSSAT), a charitable company (!), finally lay bare the rottenness behind the Trust.The Lilac Sky Schools Trust is carrying a net deficit of...
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Oversubscription & Vacancies in Medway Primary schools: Allocation for...
The proportion of children offered one of their choices in a Medway primary school has risen to 97.4%, the highest proportion for at least five years. This is a result of a reduction of 160 in the...
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Sharp Rise in Admission Appeal numbers for NW Kent Grammar Schools
There has been another sharp rise in the number of appeals for places in North West Kent grammar schools this year. This is driven by London families seeking places in Dartford, to a lesser extent...
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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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What Can I do about Medway Council? Part Three
As regularly browsers of this site may have seen, I have taken a particular interest in the number of children choosing. or being encouraged to leave school for. Elective Home Education (EHE) and those...
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Medway Council: Incompetent Again but Contemptuous With It
For over two months I have been trying to obtain an update on the appalling 2014-15 figures for Medway school permanent exclusions, together with numbers of children on Elective Home Education....
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Academy and Free School News: July 2017
There has been plenty of activity on the Academy and Free School scene over the five months since my previous article on this theme. There are eleven new academies in Kent, and seven in Medway, as...
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2015-16 School Exclusions: Medway sets yet another Unenviable Record
Government statistics for Permanent and Fixed Term Exclusions, published today, show that Medway schools are once again amongst the worst in the country for excluding children. Taken in conjunction...
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Eleven New Kent and Medway Free Schools
Update with sponsor for Maritime AcademyGovernment has today announced approval for eleven new Free schools in Kent and Medway, amongst 131 nationally. These “exclude those meeting a need identified by...
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Medway Council: Incompetent Again and Contemptuous With It
Update 7 July: Four weeks ago Medway Council was issued with an Enforcement Notice by the Information Commissioner's Office following its failures 'to take appropriate organisational measures...
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Tough Love Academies: Ebbsfleet; Hartsdown; Oasis Isle of Sheppey
I have been looking at Kent schools that have abnormally large numbers of pupils dropping out before completing their statutory education, and trying to work out some of the reasons. Three schools leap...
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Advice on Sixth Form Non-admission and Exclusions: Maidstone Girls' and...
Back in January, the Kent Messenger headlined an article with ‘Maidstone: Headteachers of Invicta Grammar and MGGS rubbish unlawful admissions claims’ (comments at the foot of the article).This was in...
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Complaints to the Local Government Ombudsman
News headlines have reported that there were more complaints to the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) against Kent education and social services last year than any other Authority, a total of 89,...
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