Sunday 28 November 2010

Shhhh, They're Keeping This One Quiet As Well
















First of all Michael Gove stopped the building of a new academy school in the Druids Heath area, following the amalgamation of Baverstock and Kings Norton School. Now Michael Gove is about to upset the Head Teachers by clawing back funding, which is normally given to schools for keeping sixth form students, all of this in an attempt to make further savings for his department.
Already we know that those youngsters who qualify, are to shortly lose their "Education Maintenance Allowance" and yes I know it's only around £30 a week, but for those youngsters it can and often does mean the difference between staying on or leaving school.
Education for these young people is such, that if we don't encourage them now, we could lose them from the system altogether.
Read more here;
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6064206&navcode=94

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