Education

JIM FITZPATRICK has pledged to help a local campaign which is trying to stop government funding of Tower Hamlets schools being slashed. The outgoing MP, who is Labour’s candidate for Poplar & Limehouse in the coming General Election, was speaking this ...

ONE OF THE last acts of the Tory Government was to increase university tuition fees before Parliament shut down for the General Election. A Higher Education Bill was one of the casualties of Theresa May’s decision to hold a cut-and-run ...

THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to parent and teacher pressure and announced proposals to abolish the controversial SATs tests which the nation’s seven year olds are forced to take each year. Parents have long protested that seven year olds are far ...

TAFSIA SHIKDAR is an ordinary school pupil at an ordinary school in Newham, nervous about her “A”-level exams that are coming up in the summer. From September, though, she will be doing something quite extraordinary – studying engineering at the ...

Emdad Rahman Jamiatul Ummah secondary school held an anniversary dinner to celebrate 20 years of education excellence, togetherness, community and inspiring a united group of strong, upstanding and committed young men to fulfill huge ambitions. From humble beginnings, the educational establishment ...

PRIMARY AND second schools throughout the UK are bracing themselves for a difficult future as details of the Government’s new funding formula become clear. Under the current funding formula, schools with more challenges – such as higher levels of deprivation among ...

GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS to change the way in which schools are funded could see nearly three quarters of London’s schools having to cut down their budgets. The warning comes from London Councils, the organisation which represents the 33 Councils in London ...

Black and Asian Muslim youngsters, particularly young women, “do worse for jobs”, even though it is white boys from poor families who “do worse” in school. The finding comes from the Social Mobility Commission – an independent but official body. ...

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Muhammad Ismael As part of a character building initiative, Year 8 students at the London Enterprise Academy in London E1 have been learning about dementia and the effect the brain disease has on the lives of people. Dementia Friends Champion Emdad ...