schools

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

A tedious survey from a government department we’d barely heard of has concluded that kids in the UK know little to nothing about the 2012 Olympic Games coming their way. The Olympic bad news yawnarama continues. Considering it’s 4 years off, the whole Beijing thing’s …

Despite the slow waterwheel turn of time and the thickening of cataracts, Londonist remembers school well. Oh what fun we had; and did it really turn out bad? All we learned at school was how to bend not break the rules. Yup, school did by …

The government today accepted recommendations from a report about improving public-military relations which included the appointment of a “cadet ambassador” for London to do “everything possible” to urge schools to start Combined Cadet Forces and get their pupils to join them and enjoy “a taste …