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Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Munira Wilson MP has tabled an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to keep the 50% cap on faith-based admissions in new religious schools. Since 2011 all new state schools have had to be free schools and they have been subject to such a cap. But the Schools Bill is set… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has warned that the government’s decision to significantly increase firearms licensing fees poses a threat to rural livelihoods and fails to deal with gross inefficiencies which in many cases provides an unacceptable service. Moreover, an inefficient system is an ineffective system, and this puts public safety at… Read more »
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Around 20,000 trainee teachers have had to retake numeracy tests, according to figures released in a parliamentary answer. The figures also reveal the average number of attempts made to pass the exam has shot up by 16 per cent since 2001. “As the number of applicants being accepted on to teaching courses rises, we need… Read more »
The government is scrapping national tests for 14-year-olds following this summer’s Sats fiasco. Ed Balls, schools secretary, made the announcement to the Commons this afternoon. He plans for internal teacher assessments to be used from 2009 onwards. “Over the last seven years we have fallen behind as a country in every external measurement of educational… Read more »
