Posted by TLC Education
Education Business, In The News, Private Tuition
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
There is only one full-time equivalent (FTE) qualified teacher per 135 looked after children eligible for the pupil premium in England, according to Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted by the Cambridge-based specialist maths, English and science tutoring provider, TLC Education Group. There are 40,560 children eligible for the Looked After Child Pupil Premium in [...]
Posted by anthony
Apprenticeships, In The News, Internships
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Leaving mainstream education can be the scariest time of a teenager’s life. The comforts which you have often took for granted are snatched from under you, and you are forced to make potentially life moulding decisions. Knowing exactly what you want to do for the rest of your life at the age of 17 is [...]
Posted by PureTech
In The News, IT, Schools
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Independent schools are unique, active users of IT. They are keen to attract new pupils, even if they enjoy a long waiting list, and to do this they must demonstrate competitive advantage not only in terms of educational achievement but in the facilities on offer as well. Traditionally this is in areas such as sports, [...]
Posted by Editors
Conferences & Summits, In The News
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
To the EducationState team! We are writing to introduce ourselves, The World Literacy Foundation, and a Global summit we are holding in April of this year. The World Literacy Foundation is an independent not-for-profit charitable body founded in Australia in 2003. The foundation is committed to providing projects and programs to break the cycle of low [...]
Posted by Editors
In The News, Tories, Unions
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Below, and just in case any UK public sector worker needed further motivation to take strike action tomorrow (November 30th 2011), a ‘striking’ Michael Gove. A case of ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
Posted by Sheira Gorris
A Levels, Education Business, GCSEs, In The News
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Following yesterday’s revelation that female GCSE pupils have widened the gender gap further, FDM Group is urging young women to consider taking IT related A levels. It has been revealed that more than one in four female pupils were awarded an A or A* at GCSE level this summer, expanding the academic bridge between the [...]
Posted by TLC Education
Education Business, In The News, Schools, Teaching
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Five East Anglia schools form tutoring partnerships with TLC Education Group TLC Education Group, the specialist maths and English tutoring provider, today announces five partnerships with schools across East Anglia. The Samuel Ward Academy and Wymondham High School in Suffolk, Coleridge Community College and Parkside Community College in Cambridge, and the Open Academy in Norwich, [...]
Posted by Editors
Diane Ravitch, In The News, Schools
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action! July 28-31, 2011 in Washington, D.C. and around the country We’re putting the Public back in public schools! We, a collection of people from all walks of life and every corner of this nation, embody a mixture of ideas and opinions regarding how we can improve [...]
Posted by Editors
In The News, Media Watch, Politics
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
With the revelations surrounding Murdoch’s newspaper empire coming thick and fast, there is one Member of the UK Parliament who has remained strangely quiet given his links to News International, his former employer. The MP? Our own Education Secretary Michael Gove. That is, former Times journalist Michael Gove. That is, the husband of Sarah Vine [...]
Posted by Editors
In The News, Teach First, Teaching, Tories
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
When you consider how desperate times apparently are in the UK, it would help that those with a democratic mandate were talking to each other. Last week, Ian Duncan Smith urged the recruitment of British workers, a few weeks before that Michael “The Governor” Gove decided to relax the rules regulating the employment of overseas-trained [...]
