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List of ten new Free School in Meridian region

The Department of Education has released a list of the ten new Free Schools which will open in 2014 in the Meridian region.

  • Bray Free Primary School, Windsor and Maidenhead
  • Cobham Free School (Senior Department), Secondary, Surrey
  • Crawley Free School, All through school, West Sussex
  • Evendons Primary School, Wokingham
  • INSPIRE Special Free School, Secondary, Medway
  • Island Free School, Secondary, Isle of Wight
  • Jubilee Primary School, Kent
  • Salisbury Sixth Form College, Wiltshire
  • The Heights Primary School, Reading
  • West Reading Education Network (WREN), Secondary, Reading

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New Free Schools for the South

The first free schools opened in September 2012
The first free schools opened in September 2012 Credit: ITV News Meridian

Ten free schools in our patch have been approved by Department for Education and are due to open in September 2014.

In total 102 new school given go ahead today by the government. Free schools are state funded by outside of local authority control and are set up by parents, charities, teachers and educationalists.

School creates prayer room to help with exam stress

by Charlotte Wilkins

Thousands of students will be sitting down to take exams across the country this month - but one school in Brighton & Hove believes it's not only good teaching and revision that gets the grades.

Cardinal Newman Catholic School has set up an interactive prayer room for pupils who are feeling the pressure. Charlotte Wilkins has been to take a look.

Colleges undercut university fees

With tuition fees rising to as much as nine thousand pounds a year many students are looking for ways to save money on the cost of a degree.

New rules mean some sixth form colleges in the South East are now able to offer courses for as little as a third of the cost of a university degree.

Our social affairs correspondent Christine Alsford has been finding out how they do it.

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