schooling

Time is ticking for parents to choose which schools they would most like their children to attend in 2014.

Families whose children are due to start at primary school for the first time or junior school (having completed Year 2 in an infant school) in September 2014 have just seven days left to tell the Council which three schools are their top choices.

The deadline for primary...

Independent schools could be held to a higher standard of education by regulator Ofsted from next September onwards.

In new plans unveiled today ‘good’ will become the only acceptable standard for independent schools inspected by Ofsted.

Currently, the Ofsted framework for schools has the judgements, outstanding, good, adequate and inadequate. This consultation now seeks views...