Archive

2001

The best copy of the year was probably the piece on government reforms of post-16 qualifications - 'Generation Exhausted' Guardian Education March 20th - Other writers had highlighted the extra work sixth formers were doing as part of the Curriculum 2000 reforms, but my copy was the first to point out that the entire policy was failing. In June, under heavy pressure, the government began an inquiry into the initiative.

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And the best of the rest.

Free spirits. TES December 7th

TES JOBS. Supply teachers. 'You go in, do your job and go home.'

Federation is their future. TES November 30th

TES Briefing. Small schools seek safety in numbers

Big roll does not equal big money. TES November 23rd

TES Briefing. Heads of the country's biggest primary schools say they are denied the funding given to secondaries of the same size

Let's play catch up. Guardian November 13th

Guardian Education. Do secondary schools ignore the IT skills of keen 11 year olds when they transfer to the 'big school'?

Money to burn. TES November 9th

TES Briefing. Arson and a litigious public take the blame for rises in insurance costs.

Hair today (November 6th), Who is special? (November 13th) and Admission of failure (November 20th). Guardian short series

Guardian Education. A three week series looking at 'inclusion' in Britain's schools.

Tacke them head on. TES October 26th

Ex-England rubgy player Peter Rossborough was accused of bullying the staff at his midlands school.

Heading to safety. Guardian September 18th

Guardian Education. Government plans to improve safety on school trips are assessed.

Couldn't do better. Guardian August 21st

Lead feature in Guardian Education. How does the Thomas Telford City Technology College achieve its 100% record at GCSE?

How can we stop these tragedies? TES Briefing July 13th

Advice to schools in the wake of the death of 11 year old Bumni Shagaya on a school trip

Vast Sums. Guardian July 10th

Minister Stephen Timms floats the idea of allowing private companies to run individual school departments. 'Oops' says Phil Revell.

Tested on Children. Guardian June 12th

Today's 17 year olds are the guinea pig generation. First to try the National Curriculum and now first to test drive the A level reforms.

Casualties of the blight. TES May 25th

Conflicting advice about foot and mouth has fuelled a financial disaster for outdoor education centres. TES Briefing.

Generation exhausted. Guardian March 20th 2001

Lead feature in Guardian Education. Are we working our sixth formers too hard? An attack on the government's Curriculum 2000 reforms.

Special effects. Guardian February 13th 2001

Lead feature in Guardian Education. What parents need to know about specialist schools.

On slippery ground. Guardian February 6th 2001

Lead feature in Guardian Education. School ski trips, one too many? The death of Rachel Williams.

Location, location, location. Guardian January 23rd 2001

Lead feature in Guardian Education looks at funding discrepancies between schools.

Workload fuels the jobs crisis. TES

TES opinion pages.

'Why Welsh heads feel cheated' TES January 19th 2001

Resentment mounts as the National Assembly and councils hold up extra grants.

'Missed opportunity' Guardian January 9th 2001

Lead feature in educ@guardian, the paper's education IT supplement, looks into the government's lottery funded IT training scheme for teachers.

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