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Lecturers resist cuts

Lecturers resist cuts

Lecturers and other academic staff today held a picket outside Lewisham College as part of a Day of Action…

Games consoles to improve maths results

Games consoles to improve maths results

Afro-Caribbean pupils in twelve Hackney schools are being given handheld games consoles to improve maths scores.…

Tinchy turns teacher

Tinchy turns teacher

Rapper Tinchy Stryder swapped the bling for the blackboard in Lewisham today in support of the government programme to deliver personal finance in schools.The Bow singer took a teacher role in a special class at St Matthew Academy.…

Girls and boys both wearing the trousers

Girls and boys both wearing the trousers

A school in West Croydon has finally taken the decision to allow its female pupils to wear trousers rather than skirts, after “decades” of protest.…

Local college gets praise from high places

Local college gets praise from high places

An Ofsted Report has praised a local college for an improvement in GCSE results and a better revised curriculum. Bethnal Green Technology College was recently inspected and its overall performance was judged to be satisfactory.…

Students search police at Sedgehill

Students search police at Sedgehill

It’s not often that you would find a policeman in casual clothes being ordered to turn out his pockets by a black teenage boy dressed in a hoodie and baggy jeans – and rarer still to see the policeman meekly complying. But at Sedgehill school in Lewisham such scenes are…

First London Fairtrade primary school in Hackney

First London Fairtrade primary school in Hackney

Jubilee Primary School in Stoke Newington has been awarded as the first Fairtrade primary school in London after a year’s hard work.…

Public to have their say on school ‘no-fry’ zones

Public to have their say on school ‘no-fry’ zones

The public in Lewisham will have their say on ‘no fry zones’ which ban takeaways near schools.…

School’s victory over council’s demolition plan

School’s victory over council’s demolition plan

While many school children were last week relishing days off due to the snow, pupils from one Lewisham school were eager to return after a nine month absence.…

Primary places problem given temporary reprieve

Primary places problem given temporary reprieve

Croydon council have welcomed a government pledge of £12m extra funding to deal with increased demand for primary school places in the borough.…