Department for Education delivers scathing verdict on Burnham’s MBacc
The Department for Education has condemned GM Mayor Andy Burnham’s MBacc plans as ‘unequal’ and ‘narrow’. In a statement to
Thousands of children are still being digitally excluded, education experts warn
Urgent calls to get more students online are going unanswered in the third national lockdown, leading to growing concerns about
‘Further and faster’: Greater Manchester closes educational equality gap for disadvantaged kids
Children from the most deprived communities in Greater Manchester are getting a better start in life with 250 children from disadvantaged backgrounds already directly benefitting.
‘Families are struggling to afford life’s basics’: Salford Council pleads for food scheme funding
Salford City Council needs funding to repeat a food help scheme which fed 3000 children over the summer. The council set up the voucher scheme after their application to the Department for Education’s holiday hunger fund was rejected – one of 88% that were, a Freedom of Information request from The Guardian and Channel 4 News revealed.
Zero tolerance approach to bullying: Manchester Communication Academy partners with app Tootoot
With bullying still a huge problem among the UK youth – 54% say they’ve experienced it – Manchester Communication Academy has announced their partnership with anti-bullying app Tootoot.
‘Peculiar’: Man Uni experts attack plans to scrap ICT GCSEs and A Levels in 2017
Scrapping ICT GCSE and A Levels for computer science because they are ‘in a similar space’ is like saying ‘stitching footballs and playing football are the same thing’, argues a developement informatics professor.
Manchester school drop-out crisis: It’s the teachers not the students quitting education
Pressure from universities to improve employability scores means too many newly qualified teachers taking the wrong jobs and then dropping out, says a Manchester teaching recruitment agency.
GCSEs make teens feel stupid even when they’re NOT, says Manchester education boss
As the GCSE results gender gap widens, a Manchester education boss is claiming the exams don’t just make boys feel stupid but girls too ‘even when they’re not’.
Manchester children in need of adoption face 20% longer wait to find families
Children hoping to find new families across Greater Manchester are facing a 20% longer wait to be adopted than three years ago, according to latest government figures.
Tameside’s high schools damned as Ofsted reveal more than HALF are failing
More than half of Tameside’s secondary schools are inadequate or require improvement, according to Ofsted’s annual report.