Download or read book School admissions code 2007 written by Great Britain: Department for Education and Skills and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Admissions Code of Practice written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Admissions and Accountability written by Feintuck, Mike and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The processes for allocating places at secondary schools in England are perennially controversial. Providing integrated coverage of the policy, practice and outcomes from 1944 to 2012, this book addresses the issues relevant to school admissions arising from three different approaches adopted in this period: planning via local authorities, quasi-market mechanisms, and random allocation. Each approach is assessed on its own terms, but constitutional and legal analysis is also utilised to reflect on the extent to which each meets expectations and values associated with schooling, especially democratic expectations associated with citizenship. Repeated failure to identify and pursue specific values for schooling, and hence admissions, can be found to underlie questions regarding the ‘fairness’ of the process, while also limiting the potential utility of judicial responses to legal actions relating to school admissions. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach which makes it relevant and accessible to a wide readership in education, social policy and socio-legal studies.
Download or read book Excellence in Education written by Sir Cyril Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough examination of the characteristics of a high- performing school, written by Sir Cyril Taylor (Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust) and Conor Ryan (senior adviser to Tony Blair on Education).
Download or read book How to Set Up a Free School written by Toby Young and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Toby Young's guide to setting up a Free school. In September 2011, one of the most radical and controversial education reforms in the UK became a reality when twenty-four Free Schools - funded by the tax-payer but shaped and run by parents, teachers and charities, independently of Local Authority control - opened their gates to children across the country. They are the centrepiece of the Coalition government's argument for a 'Big Society' and have provided a key battleground between political combatants on all sides. The crusade on their behalf in the face of fierce opposition has been led by the outspoken journalist Toby Young, whose West London Free School was one of the first. In this witty, pithy essay, Young explains step-by-step how he gathered support and saw his vision through, from securing premises, teachers and students to fighting off opponents at every turn. At once an argument and a how-to guide, this timely Penguin Special is the essential manifesto for the Free Schools movement and a must-read for supporters and detractors alike.
Download or read book Education Law and Diversity written by Neville Harris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Education, Law and Diversity provides extensive updated analysis, from a legal perspective, of how the education system responds to social diversity and how the relevant social and cultural rights of individuals and groups are affected. It spans wide-ranging areas of school provision, including: types of school (including faith schools), the school curriculum, choice of school, out-of-school settings, and duties towards children with special needs and disabilities. It gives extensive coverage to children's rights in the context of education and includes considerable new material on issues including relationships and sex education, exclusion from school, home education, equal access, counter-extremism and academisation. The new edition also retains and updates areas of debate in the book, such as those concerned with multiculturalism and the position of religion in schools. It continues to focus on England but also makes reference to other jurisdictions within the UK and internationally. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the legal and related policy issues surrounding children's education today.
Download or read book Excellence in Education written by Cyril Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. It draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around. Looking at such areas as leadership, staffing, target-setting, discipline and order, curriculum innovation and individual learning, the book offers a blueprint to head teachers and others trying to develop excellent schools.
Download or read book The Best For My Child Did the market really deliver written by Fiona Millar and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parent choice, diversity of school provision and the idea of a quasi-market in schools have dominated education policy for the last thirty years since the passage of the 1988 Great Education Reform Act. But has the market worked in the way that was intended? Are schools better? Do we have a fairer school system? Do parents really have choice? Author and journalist Fiona Millar looks at why these policies have proved so seductive to a generation of politicians and seeks to uncover whether we really are doing "the best for all our children". If we are not, what future reform could and should look like." This is an area that has preoccupied me since the early 1990s when my own children's school was one of the first to be named and shamed by Ofsted," explains Millar. "We had first hand experience of how the market worked in practice so this is an area I have followed with close interest every since. Thirty years on from the 1988 Act I feel we are ready for a new approach but that is important to understand what worked and what could be better. I hope my book will help to answer those questions."
Download or read book Making Social Policy Work written by John Hills and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection have been specially written in honour of the 70th birthday of Howard Glennerster whose work is concerned not only with the theoretical, historical and political foundations of social policies but, crucially, with how they work in practice.
Download or read book Putting Corporate Parenting into Practice Second Edition written by Di Hart and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of considerable attention in recent years, there continues to be a gap between the outcomes of looked after children and those of their peers. There is more to being a good parent than keeping children safe - every child needs to feel that parents are 'there' for them, including children in the care system. The complication for children in care is that those responsible are the elected members and officers of the local authority. With an emphasis on practical tools and training materials, this new edition will support the implementation of corporate parenting across the local authority by focusing on the leadership and commitment that members and officers can provide. This new edition is essential reading for all local councillors and supports elected members and council officers to ensure that they fulfil their role as corporate parents. It sets out the responsibilities of a corporate parent, together with practical exercises and briefings to support effective practice.
Download or read book Accessibility or Reinventing Education written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accessibility requirement of educational policies is a reinvention of schools beyond the education of students with disabilities. Accessibility or Reinventing Education studies the changes that have redefined the roles and missions of schools, by asking them to consider the obstacles to learning imposed on students – regardless of their particular characteristics – in order to make themselves accessible to the greatest number. This book examines the ways in which school stakeholders are addressing the need for accessibility to bring its principles to life on a daily basis. Particular attention is given to the strategies developed by teachers for creating accessible school environments, the conditions for mobilizing digital technologies, and the redefinition of relationships between teachers and their specialist counterparts. Finally, the new figures of "ineducablility", established because of the accessibility imperative, are considered, and a grammar of accessibility is proposed, setting the stage for accessibility in school environments and the implementation of inclusive policies.
Download or read book Schools for Special Needs 2012 2013 written by Gabbitas and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special needs provision continues to be the focus of much attention. A growing emphasis on the importance of meeting individual and often complex needs means that finding the right school for your child can be a complicated process. Schools for Special Needs is an indispensable aid for anyone investigating the legal and practical aspects of SEN provision for children and young people at all stages of education. Included in this edition: assessment and identification of needs, statementing, suitable provision and school choice coverage of all special needs from ADHD and Autism to Speech and Language Difficulty and Visual Impairment where to seek help, parents' rights and the role of the local authority the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice directories of independent and non-maintained special schools, colleges and support services state-maintained special schools, and mainstream independent schools with specialist provision To see schools online, visit the Guide's website at www.schoolsforspecialneeds.co.uk
Download or read book The Privatization of State Education written by Chris Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who wants to know what is really happening in schools - behind all the hype and political rhetoric about the privatizing reforms in education - should read this book. It clarifies how private interests are influencing the public education process and investigates Labour's successes and failures. In plain English, it shows how schools are set up, run and held to account through testing and inspection and how they make judgements about the relative merits of different schools’ performances. It also indicates ways in which ordinary people can participate in shaping the future of education in order to achieve progress and better standards of achievement from schools and the education service generally. This is essential reading for all those concerned about the new future of our education system and of our children.
Download or read book Schools for Special Needs 2014 written by Gabbitas and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-03 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special needs provision continues to be the focus of much attention. A growing emphasis on the importance of meeting individual and often complex needs means that finding the right school for your child can be a complicated process. Schools for Special Needs is an indispensable aid for anyone investigating the legal and practical aspects of SEN provision for children and young people at all stages of education. This fully updated guide covers: assessment and identification of needs, statementing, suitable provision and school choice; all special needs from ADHD and Autism to Speech and Language Difficulty and Visual Impairment; where to seek help, parents' rights and the role of the local authority; the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice; directories of independent and non-maintained special schools, colleges and support services; state-maintained special schools, and mainstream independent schools with specialist provision.
Download or read book Fertility Living Arrangements Care and Mobility written by John Stillwell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many parts of the world are experiencing rapid demographic restructuring, resulting in an ageing population with increasingly significant work and care pressures on cohorts less able or willing to provide support. This book examines some of the important trends that have underpinned reductions in fertility, including delayed child-bearing and increased childlessness. It demonstrates how relationships between partners have resulted in new living arrangements with changing attitudes from marriage to co-habitation as the social norm, and it considers the health and well-being for particular at risk groups such as the elderly and stepparents as well as aspects of mobility such as household migration and commuting to school. The book brings together a series of studies that all involve quantitative analyses of secondary data from censuses, surveys or administrative records. The trends and patterns reported provide new and interesting insights into behaviour of the household and the roles of adults and children, and point to questions of critical importance for practitioners and policy makers.
Download or read book The School Governors Yearbook 2008 written by Adamson Stephen Staff and published by Adamson Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What school governors in England and Wales have to know and do continues to change from year to year. This guide gives them in succinct form the information they need to function effectively throughout the 2007-8 school year. It provides a governor-centred view of topical issues, school priorities and changes in the law, and explains how they affect the governor's work. It also helps them plan successfully their own work for the year, and includes directories of further information.
Download or read book Secondary Education written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondary Education : School admissions, fourth report of session 2003-04, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
