London Facing Terrifying School Places Drought
The city has, literally, more children than it knows what to do with.
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Councillor Involved In Stockwell Boarding School Row Resigns
John Cherry clearly has no idea how amazing London’s schoolkids are.
Wandsworth Council Approves Playing Fields Sale
Money raised will fund refurbishments at Elliott School after government scheme was scrapped.
Lambeth To Run Out Of Primary School Places By 2015
Lambeth Council launches campaign to squeeze more funding from central government.
Tidemill Headteacher: It’s A Bit More Complicated Than That
That howling you can hear is the furore created by the news that Tidemill Primary School headteacher Mark Elms is paid ‘over £200k a year’. Brockley Kate does a nice dissection of that figure (briefly: his actual annual salary is £82k; the rest of his …
An Elm For Elm Court School
Conservation Foundation Executive Director, David Shreeve, hands over the elm A quick Google Map search on things called elm in Lambeth throws up evidence that the great tree was once a notable fixture: Elm Court SW9, Elm Park Tavern SW2, Elm Park Dairies SW2, Elm …
Extra, Extra
London’s schools aren’t really doing very well. LU. RMT. Strike. Same old. Motorcyclist of Westminster? It’ll cost you £1 a day to park there from the end of this month. You’ll be glad to know that the Olympic Park is safe from, um, 40mph sewage …
Southwark School Is Addicted To Spy Cameras
Image / Simon Crubellier The oft-quoted canard that Britons are captured on CCTV “300 times a day” was exposed a few months ago by David Aaronovitch as dubious at best, highly inaccurate at worst. Yet that hasn’t stopped one south London school from trying to …
Swine Flu Marches On
Mr H1N1, yesterday. Hamageddon may have been averted for now, but swine flu continues to have an impact on the capital. Three schools have been closed in London as a precautionary measure after two pupils at the Dolphin Primary School in Battersea, and individuals at …
Richmond Cracks Down On Crafty Parents
Richmond is taking a hard line against well intentioned parents who fudge the truth to get their children into better schools. In the last year, the borough has had to deal with about 50 parents who lied about their addresses to give their children an …
City Workers For Schools?
Yesterday the Church condemned them. Today the Teacher Training and Development Agency are preying on them in their weakened, godforsaken state, trying to lure city workers to the education sector with the promise of a safe employment haven after their traumatic experiences losing hugely well …
