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Swale Academies Trust & The Sunday Times: Together with the Magic Money Tree
The Sunday Times led this week on a story about Academy'fat cats', one focus being the CEO of charitable company Swale Academies Trust (SWAT) with his £170,000 annual salary and the four BMWs provided...
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Shame on Holcombe Grammar School and Medway Council
Update - Read below first: Numbers taking up Victory option have fallen on fist day of term, as have those taking up places at Holcombe. Surely, the mature solution is to admit this has been an...
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Expulsion of Year 12 A Level Pupils Illegal
A statement from the Department for Education reads: “Our regulations make clear that schools are not allowed to remove pupils from a sixth form because of academic attainment once they are enrolled....
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Complaints about Academy and Free School Apppeals
I am regularly asked regarding possible complaints about Admission Appeals to academies and Free Schools, and respond that it is rare such complaints succeed.I now have the data for academies and Free...
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Which School heard 93 Appeals, but had none Upheld?
KCC Panel School Appeals 2017 Heard Upheld NotUpheld%Upheld Grammar Schools Non-Selective Infant/Primary Breach Infant'Primary (other) Junior
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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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Appeal Outcomes in Kent, Kent Panel Results
This article looks at school admission appeals in Kent and Medway heard by Appeal Panels organised by the two Local Authorities. I will publish another article later when I have outcomes of appeals set...
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Secondary School Admissions and Appeals: What I offer
Please note, as recorded elsewhere I have retired from offering a full appeals service.However, I am happy to offer my Telephone Consultation Service for school admission and appeal matters to Kent and...
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Ombudsman confirms MGSG has operated unlawful Sixth Form Admission rules for...
Back in January, I published an article reporting that the Maidstone Grammar School for Girls (MGSG) Sixth Form Admission process was unlawful, along with the now demonstrably unlawful actions of...
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Medway Council Fails the Medway Test Yet Again
Update: From around 10 p.m. Monday, emails from Simon Harrington (Student Services Manager, Medway Council), informing parents whether child (no name) has passed the Medway Test or not, but no scores....
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Kent Test Results 2017: Initial outcomes
I now have initial information regarding the Medway Test, happily provided promptly, and will publish this shortly. Kent Test results have now been published with the pass mark the same as last year....
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Medway Test Results 2017
I am rarely caught out completely by admission matters, but events at the two Chatham grammar schools for entry in September 2017 have completely amazed me. These are compounded by the Medway Test...
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Unlawful Grammar School Admissions: Holcombe (Medway); Maidstone Girls; and...
The DfE has now ruled, as I forecast in my article entitled ‘Shame on Holcombe Grammar School and Medway Council’, that actions such as those of the Thinking Schools Academy Trust (TSAT) in placing...
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Provisional GCSE Results for Kent 2017
Update on Simon Langton Boys belowMedway Outcomes to FollowThis is the second year of the new GCSE assessments for measuring schools performance, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, which replace the long...
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Provisional GCSE Results for Medway 2017
Last year the long established 5 A*-C GCSE league table including English and maths was scrapped, being replaced by two new assessments, Progress 8 and Attainment 8. Both these are measured by an...
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School Appeal Outcomes Across Kent and Medway 2017
This article looks at school admission appeals in Kent and Medway, building on a previous article about appeals heard by the Kent County Council Appeals Service, which should be read in conjunction...
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Free School Policy failures create secondary school places crisis in both...
This article looks at the alarming pressures on secondary school places in Thanet and Tunbridge Wells which were discussed at a KCC Education Cabinet meeting earlier this month. It also revisits the...
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Permanent Exclusion and 'Off Rolling': A Radio Interview for the West Midlands
I gave an interview yesterday morning for West Midlands Radio on the recent rapid rise in permanent exclusions in their area, up by 50% over the past five years. This followed up on a previous series...
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Kent and Medway Secondary & Special School OFSTED Outcomes 2016-17
This article describes a highly successful set of Kent secondary school OFSTED outcomes for the School Year 2016-17, along with Medway secondary and Special School results.80% of the 20 non-selective...
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Canterbury Academy: Exceptional OFSTED Inspection Report
The recent ‘Good’ OFSTED Report on The Canterbury Academy is one of the most astonishing I have ever read, with most findings meeting an ‘Outstanding’ criterion, and some going beyond this. There are...
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