School shake-up

£1m cash shortfall hits school plans

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

THE headteacher of Stoke-on-Trent's most popular high school today accused council officials of short-changing its pupils.

David Dickinson spoke out after it emerged Haywood Engineering College, in Burslem, is getting £1.1 million less than expected to create a...

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Parents demand school is rebuilt after setback

TIME FOR A FACELIFT: Mother Catherine Tellett with son Sebastian, aged 10, outside Sneyd Green Primary School, which she says needs updating. Picture: Mark Scott

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

PARENTS have called on education bosses to make good on their promise of a new school building. Families of pupils at Sneyd Green Primary School had...

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Expansion plan will leave no cash for college refurbishment, claim protesters

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

CAMPAIGNERS fighting to keep a secondary school in their community have branded plans to expand a comprehensive as a deliberate attempt to "thwart"...

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'It's head and shoulders above other options'

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

TWINS Grace and Bethan Davies will be following in their family's footsteps when they start at Haywood Engineering College in September. The...

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£3.1m work to take pupil roll past 1,000

Friday, March 05, 2010

A HIGH school is to expand by more than a quarter so it can cater for hundreds of extra pupils and complete major improvements to its facilities....

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School money confirmed for £250m plans

Thursday, March 04, 2010

EDUCATION leaders have finally secured the £250 million needed to create five academies and refurbish or rebuild many of Stoke-on-Trent's other...

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Fears pupils being forced from school

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

PARENTS have been reassured their children won't be forced to transfer to another site when their school is taken over by a comprehensive this summer....

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Schools get cash to tide them over until building starts

Friday, February 26, 2010

TWO schools being replaced with academies are to get some improvements to their current buildings to tide them over until multi-million pound new...

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New boss takes up schools challenge

Saturday, February 20, 2010

THE new director of Stoke-on-Trent's children's services will be swapping one of England's most rural counties for the challenges of inner-city life....

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