Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, Kerry McCarthy, tagged Bristol, Bristol City Council, Education, Michael Gove, Primary School Crisis on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Ian Onions, Political Editor
Bristol’S ongoing primary schools crisis is due to be debated in Parliament tomorrow, after Bristol East Labour MP Kerry McCarthy won permission for a special debate.
During the debate, Ms McCarthy will urge the Department for Education to treat Bristol as a “special case” by stepping in and providing emergency funding to ease the chronic shortage of places.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, MPs, tagged Barbara Janke, Bristol City Council, Dawn Primarolo, Education, Liberal Democrats on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Bristol City Council’s Lib Dem leader Barbara Janke has said sorry for not making clear in an approach to the Government that the shortage of primary school places is affecting the whole of the city.
The apology came in response to a complaint from Labour MP Dawn Primarolo, who accused Mrs Janke of ignoring the problems in south Bristol
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, tagged Bristol City Council, Clare Campion-Smith, Education, Primary Schools places on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Linda Tanner, Education Correspondent / l.tanner@bepp.co.uk
A review is starting this month to try to improve the way parents are dealt with by Bristol City Council when they apply for primary school places for their children.
Over the past few years, many people have said problems getting information about admissions have created extra stress at an already anxious time.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, MPs, tagged Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Free School, Education, Michael Gove on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Linda Tanner, Education Correspondent / l.tanner@bepp.co.uk
England’s biggest free school will open in north west Bristol next month.
On Friday Education Secretary Michael Gove signed a funding agreement with the Bristol Free School Trust for the permanent establishment of the new secondary school.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, tagged Bath and North East Somerset Council, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Bristolpolitics, Education, Evening Post, Nick Gibb, North Somerset Council, Politics, Schools Minister, South Gloucestershire Council, Tom Moseley on August 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Tom Moseley, Parliamentary Correspondent
MORE than 35 pupils are suspended from schools in the Bristol area each day, new figures reveal.
Hundreds of students are excluded for assaulting staff, racist abuse and drug and alcohol offences.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, Liberal Democrats, tagged Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Clare Campion-Smith, Education, Liberal Democrats, Local Authority Central Spend Equivalent Grant, Michael Gove, Politics on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Bristol Liberal Democrats
THE government’s policy of getting schools to convert to academies is costing far more than planned, says the Lib Dem councillor in charge of Bristol’s children and young people’s services.
Clare Campion-Smith says a dash for cash is now under way, in which heads and governors are rushing to apply – not necessarily because they want to escape local authority control, but because it means extra funds from Whitehall at a time when spending is tight.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, tagged Barbara Janke, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Cuts, Department for Education, Education, Liberal Democrats, Michael Gove, MPs on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Linda Tanner, Education Correspondent
A PETITION has been launched by parents to help Bristol City Council persuade the Government to hand over more money to provide new primary schools.
The city has one of the fastest-growing child populations outside London and needs to provide at least 3,000 extra school places by 2014.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Bristol Free School, Education, tagged Brentry, Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Free School, Bristol Politics, Department for Education, Education, Michael Gove, Politics, Richard Clutterbuck, St Ursulas on July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
By Linda Tanner, Education Correspondent
BRISTOL Free School is considering making Brentry its permanent base rather than moving to the former St Ursula’s site in Westbury-on-Trym.
The change is prompted by the Department for Education, which says the costs of the old private school building would be significantly higher than those for the school’s temporary base in former Government offices.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, Liberal Democrats, tagged Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Cabinet, Clare Campion-Smith, Education, Faith schools, Liberal Democrats, Politics on July 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Sam Rkaina and Dan Evans
COUNCILLORS have approved the scrapping of free transport for children attending faith schools, starting next year.
The city council’s ruling cabinet has recommended phasing out the service from September 2012, so those who currently use it will still be able to for the next school year.
Posted in Bristol City Council, Education, tagged Bristol, Bristol City Council, Bristol Politics, Cuts, Education, Fi Hance, Labour, Liberal Democrats on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By Linda Tanner, Education Correspondent
BRISTOL needs more than £150 million to solve its primary school places crisis – and the Government has only given the city £9 million.
That is the harsh reality facing councillors and officers as they try to make sure there are enough schools for the rapidly-growing child population.
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