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Tag Archives: Education
Here’s a degree of job advice to help avoid A-Level gloom
The latest Dominic Cummings-led government clusterfuck, over centrally “assessed” (that means “guessed at”) A-Level results in England, has sent thousands of Croydon teens into a stressful panic over whether or not they will be able to start their planned degree … Continue reading
77% of Croydon’s pre-school children lack trained teachers
Our education correspondent GENE BRODIE reports on some worrying findings for Croydon parents about teaching provision in local nursery schools Croydon is in the bottom five of local authority areas across the whole of England for the provision of pre-school … Continue reading
Council was paying £110,000 per year to ‘despicable’ legal firm
Parents of children with special educational needs who have been forced to fight stressful and demanding legal cases to seek proper support from Croydon Council have won a small victory by getting the Town Hall to cancel arrangements for legal … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Jon Rouse, Julie Belvir, Nathan Elvery
Tagged Baker Small, Croydon Council, Education, Nathan Elvery
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Harvey heads line-up for Education in Crisis Assembly debate
Philipa Harvey, one of the National Union of Teachers’ national officers, and Ted Knight are among the key note speakers on June 28 when the Croydon Assembly stages an “Education in Crisis” meeting at Ruskin House in Croydon. Teachers are … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 EU referendum, Croydon TUC, Education
Tagged Croydon Assembly, Croydon TUC, Education, schools, Ted Knight
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Grammar school in Croydon would be unlawful and divisive
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The idea that a new secondary school, run as an “annex” of a Sutton grammar, would improve education in Croydon is wrong, according to one local teacher* Chris Philp, the MP for Croydon South, in his Croydon Commentary … Continue reading
Posted in Chris Philp MP, Croydon South, Education, Schools
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Conservative, Coulsdon, Croydon South, Education, Grammar School, Tory
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‘I wish I could have gone to the BRIT School’ says Cowell
Simon Cowell took time-off from X Factor yesterday to pay a flying visit to the BRIT School in Croydon. “The second I pulled up I thought, ‘Why didn’t I go to a school like this?’ I would have loved it, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Schools, Theatre
Tagged Adele, Brit School, Education, schools, Simon Cowell, X Factor
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Fear and loathing in Upper Norwood as an inspector calls
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on a gathering storm of controversy over a disputed Ofsted inspection at one of the secondary academies in the north of the borough The Anti Academies Alliance, an organisation of teachers, parents and educationalists who oppose … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Harris Academy South Norwood, Harris Academy Upper Norwood, schools, South Norwood, Tory
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Parents’ anger at “immoral” departure of admired school head
Parents at a Croydon primary are angry that they and their children have been treated in a “disrespectful, insensitive and immoral” manner by a interim board of governors, imposed on the school by the Tory Education Secretary, and which then … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Education, Roke Primary, Schools, South Norwood, South Norwood Primary
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Education, Labour, schools, South Norwood, South Norwood Primary, Tory
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How to get youngsters into work? Get them passing exams
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Much work has been done lately to try to improve the borough’s youngsters employability. But little was said about local schools’ GCSE results, writes CHARLOTTE DAVIES Jamie Audsley, a young, energetic and enthusiastic new councillor, last week laid … Continue reading
Labour council continues to charge for reading lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has discovered that Croydon’s Labour-run council is using a legal loophole to continue to charge local children up to £3,500 per year just to teach them how to read and write Croydon Council continues to … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Paul Greenhalgh, Schools, Tony Newman
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, Julie Belvir, Labour, Paul Greenhalgh, schools, Tony Newman, Tory
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Five Croydon primaries hit gold standard for school dinners
Five Croydon schools have achieved the Soil Association’s Food for Life Catering Gold standard for their healthy and wholesome school dinners. The schools receiving the award are All Saints Primary, Cypress Infants and Junior schools, Downsview Primary and Rockmount Primary. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Environment, Health, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Education, school dinners, schools
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Croydon primary school performance among worst in London
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, has been crunching some numbers ahead of the new term. It doesn’t make encouraging reading If you are short of things to do in the New Year, there might be nothing more interesting to do … Continue reading
Still seeking input on services ahead of staging Autism Forum
By Andrew Rendle A few weeks ago I wrote on Inside Croydon asking residents for their experience of autism services within Croydon. I said I wanted to hear from those with ASD, their parents and carers, and I’m very grateful … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Rendle, Ashburton, Health
Tagged Andrew Rendle, Ashburton, Education, Health, NHS
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Free personal safety training sessions, Nov 4 and Nov 17
Posted in Charity, Crime, Education, Knife crime, Lives Not Knives
Tagged Croydon, Education, Lives Not Knives, LNK, Training
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Long overdue that we found proper future for Segas House
CROYDON COMMENTARY: According to senior sources at the Town Hall, the scheme to convert the Grade II-listed Segas House into a primary school, the brainchild during the previous Tory council of Tim Pollard, has been abandoned because the building would … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Council, David Callam, Education, Planning, Schools, Segas House
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Education, Roehampton University, schools, Segas House, Tim Pollard, Tory, Wellesley Road
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Bishop gives backing to primary head ousted by Ofsted
The Bishop of Southwark has publicly praised the outgoing headmaster of Parish Church junior school, who retired following a controversial Ofsted report which downgraded the school’s rating from “outstanding” to “inadequate”. Bishop Christopher Chessun was the guest of honour on … Continue reading
Posted in Archbishop Lanfranc, Church and religions, Education, Roke Primary, Schools, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Education, Ofsted, Waddon
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St Giles’ School open morning, Nov 5
Posted in Education, Schools, St Giles' School
Tagged Education, South Croydon, St Giles School
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Paxton Academy pitches in at Thornton Heath rugby club
If mens sana in corpore sano – a healthy mind in a healthy body – was good enough a philosophy for those fortunate to have access to the playing fields of Eton, then it should also good enough for the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Paxton Academy, Rugby Union, Schools, Sport, Streatham-Croydon RFC, Thornton Heath
Tagged Education, Paxton Academy, schools, Thornton Heath
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Local youngsters get a chance for a dramatic start at Whitgift
Whitgift School, through its head of drama, Paul Wilson, appears to have made a move in a positive direction for the local community with the launch next Saturday of the Whitgift Academy of Visual and Performing Arts. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Music, Theatre, Whitgift School
Tagged drama, Education, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Ofsted reports signal concerns over College’s free school plan
The school places shortage has already prompted a range of daft ideas in Croydon, from the notion of sticking a primary school in a listed building overlooking a six-lane urban motorway, to building on Metropolitan Open Land with barely a … Continue reading
Croydon Carnival of Books, Central Library, Aug 27-30
Posted in Activities, Art, Education, Libraries
Tagged Central Library, Clocktower, Croydon, Education, Reading
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How was your child affected by Norbury free school shambles?
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, makes an appeal to hear from parents who considered applying for a place for their son or daughter to attend one of Michael Gove’s promised free schools Inside Croydon wants to hear from you if … Continue reading
Posted in Advance School, Education, Norbury, Schools, Thornton Heath
Tagged Advance Norbury, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Education, Free Schools, Michael Gove, Norbury, Thornton Heath, Tory
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