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School Vacancies according to the 2017 School Census for Kent and Medway
As schools come under tighter financial pressures (never mind official news, but ask your local school how it is managing), pupil numbers become ever more critical as they generate the largest part of...
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Goodwin Academy – SchoolsCompany Trust on the way out?
The new Interim Chief Executive of SchoolsCompany Trust has apologised in a letter to parents of pupils at the Goodwin Academy for ‘previous financial failings, which are unacceptable’.Sadly, this has...
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Medway Council fails its most vulnerable children
Medway Council has once again failed its children, this time the most vulnerable, as confirmed by a scathing Ofsted Report on its ‘services’ to children with Special Education Needs and Disabilities,...
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Knole Academy, Leigh Academy, Wilmington Academy: Highest Paid Headteachers...
Update: Shortly after I published this article, the BBC has led with the same issue on its website. The headteacher of The Knole Academy in Sevenoaks, a moderately performing single school academy, was...
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Barton Court Grammar: Another Bid for a coastal Annexe?
A Freedom of Information Request to the Department for Education has discovered that three grammar schools have made enquiries about opening possible annexes in the past year, one of which is the mixed...
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Website Review of the Year 2017
I have published 72 news items on this website in 2017, almost exclusively about education issues in Kent and Medway. This article has been somewhat delayed as other matters have intervened. The...
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Kent Secondary School Allocations for September 2018: Initial Information and...
You will find a parallel Medway article here.Several updates below. Kent secondary school allocations have been sent out today for those registered to receive by email and should arrive tomorrow by...
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Medway Secondary School Allocations for September 2018: Initial Information...
You will find a parallel Kent article here. The Medway Council Press Release for secondary transfer is the thinnest yet I have seen from the Council on this, or any other subject I can recall. It...
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Brook Learning Trust Schools in Trouble: Ebbsfleet Academy; Hayesbrook...
The Brook Learning Trust runs three schools, Ebbsfleet Academy, Hayesbrook School in Tonbridge, and High Weald Academy in Cranbrook and appears to be in serious trouble, both financially and in terms...
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Hartsdown: A Tough Love Academy
Hartsdown Academy has featured in national and local media after it placed the following job advertisementExcerpt from Original Hartsdown Job Advert in the Guardian (rapidly replaced but still on the...
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Tax Avoidance by Some Academy Leaders
I suspect that school teachers, who are employees of schools or Academy Trusts aren’t usually in the business of tax avoidance. As a result the following, relating to one of the highest paid leaders of...
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Oversubscription in Medway Grammar Schools for Admission in September 2018
Medway Non-Selective places to follow shortly. Kent Allocations to follow as soon as I receive data.157 new places have created in Medway grammar schools for entry in 2018 over and above original 2017...
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How much does private tutoring matter for grammar school admissions? A flawed...
A study by two researchers at the London Institute of Education has discovered some unsurprising facts about tutoring for grammar school places across the country. For me, the most important one is...
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Oversubscription and Vacancies in Kent Grammar Schools on Allocation for 2018
The number of Kent grammar school places available for Year 7 pupils has risen by 236 since last year to 5449, with a total increase of 717 over the past five years. There are currently just 184 empty...
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Holmesdale School - Ofsted Special Measures, down from Good
It will come as no surprise to regular browsers of this website that Holmesdale School in Snodland has plunged from Ofsted ‘Good’ in 2014 to Special Measures, in four years. I have tracked its...
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Oversubscription and Vacancies in Kent Non-Selective Schools on Allocation...
92% of pupils offered places in Kent non-selective schools for September 2018 were given their first choice school on allocation in March. 44 of the 46 schools were full, although this figure will fall...
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Medway Non Selective Secondary Allocations 2018
Note: This article includes the out of county information I have now received from Medway Council. This is much more significant for grammar schools, and I have also now incorporated this into my...
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Kent and Medway Primary Ofsted Sep 2017 - Feb 2017
Kent Primary Schools inspected by OFSTED since September have again produced excellent outcomes overall, way above the national figures. Although there is just one new Outstanding School, Hernhill CofE...
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Kent and Medway Primary School Allocations for September 2018
Update: I have now received a copy of the (sketchy) Medway Press Release on Primary Allocations and have incorporated it below. Excellent news for most Kent and Medway families applying for primary...
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Permanent Exclusion, Home Education and Children Missing from Education in...
I have at last obtained comprehensive data for Permanent Exclusions and numbers leaving schools for Home Education across Kent in the school year 2016-17, in spite of spurious attempts by KCC to keep...
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