Overcrowding stopped with new classrooms
Perryfields High School had to borrow a million pounds from Sandwell council to create 28 new classrooms
Mum keeps son at home after row over school places
Mum keeps child at home after first choice school is refused
Landau Forte College celebrate their GCSE results
Landau Forte College celebrate their GCSE results
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Run-down Midlands schools to receive cash boost
by Peter Bearne, Education Correspondent
The Government has announced that 52 schools in the Midlands are to receive money to rebuild dilapidated buildings.
Read the full storyTeachers contest five term year
Teachers will be lobbying the leader of Nottingham City Council today over plans to change term-times in the city.
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Union opposes academies move
NUT members at 13 primary schools in Birmingham are being balloted over plans to make the schools academies.
“Forced academies have nothing to do with raising standards of education.
There is no evidence at all to support the notion that changing the status of a school will transform the educational attainment of its pupils.
The majority of the school communities in Birmingham do not support this move."
– Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers.“Primary academies are a fairly new phenomenon and there is no evidence to suggest that a change in status will automatically raise standards.
"What it will do is take the school further away from the local community and make it accountable only to the Secretary of State in London or a private sponsor or Trust.”
NUT suspends strike action in Nottingham
The National Union of Teachers has agreed to suspend strike action which was due to take place this week in Nottingham.
This announcement comes after a meeting between Nottingham City Council and NUT representatives over plans to split the school year into five terms.
Christine Blower, General Secretary of the NUT, said: "The Union welcome the progress made today in discussion and hopes that this will speedily lead to a resolution of this serious dispute."
Councillor David Mellen from Nottingham City Council said: “I am pleased that we have had a constructive meeting with the union and that they have agreed to withdraw strike action, which ensures that children’s learning, especially at exam time, is not affected.”
Teachers on strike in Nottingham for the third time in less than a month
Teachers in Nottingham have gone on strike for the third time in less than a month over plans to introduce a new school term system in the city.
The city council wants to replace the traditional school year with five terms which would mean an end to the long six week summer holiday.
It believes this would improve the standard of children's work.
Fifty-five schools forced to close or partially close as teachers strike
Fifty-five schools have been forced to close or partially close in Nottingham today.
Teachers across the city have gone on strike for the third time in less than a month.
For the full list of the schools affected click here.
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Holidays affected by changes to school term in Nottingham
Teachers Louise Regan and Ivan Wels reflect on a family holiday to Croatia. Under proposals from Nottingham City Council they would have different term dates to their two children, making family holidays very difficult.
Teachers' strike
Teachers in Nottingham are on strike for the third time in less than a month over plans to introduce a five-term year.
Read the full storyNottingham teachers strike action
by Peter Bearne
Teachers in Nottingham are threatening to intensify their strike action over changes to the school year.
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