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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Tuesday, 06 September 2005
Tu, Sep 6, 2005
Plans to reduce to one year the deadline for failing schools to turn
themselves around was called "absolutely crazy" by headteachers, who
went on to accuse the government of using the new measures to force
more schools to become academies.
Explaining the moves, Ms Kelly said: "There is the odd case, albeit rare, where a school stays in special measures for four, five or even six years. And that just can't be right, because it might be the entire length of a pupil's secondary education.
"So what we are saying is 'you have got to focus urgently on what the problem with the school is'... and if there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option."
Explaining the moves, Ms Kelly said: "There is the odd case, albeit rare, where a school stays in special measures for four, five or even six years. And that just can't be right, because it might be the entire length of a pupil's secondary education.
"So what we are saying is 'you have got to focus urgently on what the problem with the school is'... and if there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option."
LONDON (Reuters) - Failing schools will be
given just a year to significantly improve or they could face closure
under plans announced by the government on Tuesday.
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said radical action was needed to tackle poorly performing schools, arguing in future they should be given only a year, instead of the two they currently get, to start turning standards around.
"There's the odd case ... where a school stays in special measures for four, five or even six years. And that just can't be right," Kelly told BBC radio.
"If there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option."
The options for such schools included total closure, merging with a neighbouring successful school, or reopening with new leadership or as a city academy.
Critics said the measure appeared to be a ploy to help the government meet its target of creating 200 new city academies by 2010.
Currently, failing schools are put under special measures where they are supervised by inspectors until they are judged to have improved sufficiently.
In education watchdog Ofsted's annual report in February, the chief schools inspector David Bell said about 1,000 schools in England were not making sufficient progress.
Kelly said although the number of failing schools was being reduced, the aim was to get faster progress in those facing special measures.
But John Dunford, secretary general of the Secondary Heads Association, said he was sceptical of the government's motives.
"There has to be a suspicion that this is a measure which is not being produced in the interests of good quality educational change ... but it's more a measure to help the prime minister to achieve his target of 200 academies," he told the BBC.
Kelly said she expected the most common options would be for failing schools to merge or reopen under new management.
"It's about making sure children's welfare and education is served by our school system," she said.
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said radical action was needed to tackle poorly performing schools, arguing in future they should be given only a year, instead of the two they currently get, to start turning standards around.
"There's the odd case ... where a school stays in special measures for four, five or even six years. And that just can't be right," Kelly told BBC radio.
"If there hasn't been significant progress after a year, then the local authority and the school ought to consider a more radical option."
The options for such schools included total closure, merging with a neighbouring successful school, or reopening with new leadership or as a city academy.
Critics said the measure appeared to be a ploy to help the government meet its target of creating 200 new city academies by 2010.
Currently, failing schools are put under special measures where they are supervised by inspectors until they are judged to have improved sufficiently.
In education watchdog Ofsted's annual report in February, the chief schools inspector David Bell said about 1,000 schools in England were not making sufficient progress.
Kelly said although the number of failing schools was being reduced, the aim was to get faster progress in those facing special measures.
But John Dunford, secretary general of the Secondary Heads Association, said he was sceptical of the government's motives.
"There has to be a suspicion that this is a measure which is not being produced in the interests of good quality educational change ... but it's more a measure to help the prime minister to achieve his target of 200 academies," he told the BBC.
Kelly said she expected the most common options would be for failing schools to merge or reopen under new management.
"It's about making sure children's welfare and education is served by our school system," she said.
Police looking for children who are bunking off school is a waste of time and money, say a children's charity.
Action On Rights For Children spoke to 120 local education authorities, and found most children stopped by police had a good reason to be off school.
The report found that for every four hours of police time, eight children were stopped, but only three were actually bunking off lessons.
Around 16,000 police hours a year are spent searching towns for truants.
That's the same as a year's work for 10 full-time police officers.
The charity says the same number of children still skip school as did five years ago, which proves sending police out looking for pupils doesn't work.
Thousands skip lessons
A separate study, by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), found at least 70,000 children a day bunk off school.
And one in three admits to turning up to registration and then skipping a particular lesson.
The report discovered that even though the government has spent £10 billion on trying to get children to go to school, the same number are still playing truant as 10 years ago.
