Letters: Lottery winner
We welcome chief schools adjudicator Ian Craig's report endorsing this council's use of random allocation as a fair way to deal with oversubscribed school places ( Watchdog's report , 3 November). Our previous system of using... [read full story]
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Alison Shepherd: Money buys the best state education
An education system that produces record-breaking GCSE and A-level results year after year ought to instil pride both in children and parents. And yet last month the Government that has presided over this incredible rise in...
Parents face hike in school trip costs
Your account has been frozen. Tax experts say families face being penalised because of the scrapping of a UK opt-out to the way VAT is imposed. This could result in an additional £20 for every £100 shelled out by parents who...
National Standards threaten public education
The most encouraging aspect of the launch of the government’s so-called national standards last week was the decision by teacher and principal groups to boycott the gathering. Despite Prime Minister John Key labeling the event...
Fight for a good school is making criminals of parents
Jenny Paton, a mother of three from Dorset, took her local council to court last week for snooping on her using surveillance powers designed to combat terrorism. Poole borough council used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers...
School place cheats crackdown
Dr Ian Craig says deterrents need to be strengthened Tougher action should be taken against the thousands of parents who lie to get their children into popular schools, England's school places watchdog says. Schools Adjudicator...
Down with the kids: choosing schools
With catchment areas, playing the system reinforces the system It has come to our attention that there are some readers of this column who lie about their postcodes in order to fall within the Guardian's catchment area. One...
School places: Admissions of guilt
Ministers want to make the great schools game harder to play FAKING divorce, claiming to live in a shop, passing off a grandparent’s house as one’s own: not more revelations of MPs’ accounting tricks, but tactics used by...
School places cheats 'should be punished'
Parents who lie about where they live to get their children into popular schools should face tougher sanctions, the Office of the Schools Adjudicator said this week. More than two in five councils surveyed by the adjudicator...
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