The govt. is due to confirm that it will spend an additional ?600million on building 100 new Free Schools. This is predicted to happen over the next 3 years.
12 of the faculties are going to be selective specialist mathematics faculties, which should worry a few of the people, but be good news for those who see selective faculties are a means of improving standards and stretching talented kids. The expert schools are proposed for 16-18 year olds, the age grouping that study for A levels. They are going to have strong links with good university mathematics departments. The idea is that they will assist in the creation of outstanding mathematicians.
Federal government fund Free Schools but they are run by independent suppliers, which can go from elders to universities and businesses. It is expected the money won't come from the existing education budget, but we cannot know till Tuesday when the plans are announced.
Our query is about where these new schools will be built. Hopefully they'll be built where there is requirement for them, not where the governing body would like them to be built. Free Schools are generally approved if there's a demand for places or they are to be built in a 'deprived ' area. We all know there are many areas where pupils struggle to be offered a place at their favorite schools. So it's no surprise that elders and other interested parties have taken matters into their own hands and exploited the relaxed state education policy which allows folks other than the state to open community faculties, and arranged new faculties to be built or used buildings inside their communities for teaching local children.
The selective nature of some of these school appears to be going against what Free Schools should be, indeed, on a central authority site it states:
Free Schools are all-ability state-funded colleges set up responding to what area folk say they want and need to improve education for youngsters in their community. (http://www.education.gov.uk/freeschools 27/11/11)
Has govt policy changed? Either Free Schools are for all youngsters regardless of their capability or they are not, the suggested situation leaves us with a lot of questions which hopefully will be answered very soon.
12 of the faculties are going to be selective specialist mathematics faculties, which should worry a few of the people, but be good news for those who see selective faculties are a means of improving standards and stretching talented kids. The expert schools are proposed for 16-18 year olds, the age grouping that study for A levels. They are going to have strong links with good university mathematics departments. The idea is that they will assist in the creation of outstanding mathematicians.
Federal government fund Free Schools but they are run by independent suppliers, which can go from elders to universities and businesses. It is expected the money won't come from the existing education budget, but we cannot know till Tuesday when the plans are announced.
Our query is about where these new schools will be built. Hopefully they'll be built where there is requirement for them, not where the governing body would like them to be built. Free Schools are generally approved if there's a demand for places or they are to be built in a 'deprived ' area. We all know there are many areas where pupils struggle to be offered a place at their favorite schools. So it's no surprise that elders and other interested parties have taken matters into their own hands and exploited the relaxed state education policy which allows folks other than the state to open community faculties, and arranged new faculties to be built or used buildings inside their communities for teaching local children.
The selective nature of some of these school appears to be going against what Free Schools should be, indeed, on a central authority site it states:
Free Schools are all-ability state-funded colleges set up responding to what area folk say they want and need to improve education for youngsters in their community. (http://www.education.gov.uk/freeschools 27/11/11)
Has govt policy changed? Either Free Schools are for all youngsters regardless of their capability or they are not, the suggested situation leaves us with a lot of questions which hopefully will be answered very soon.
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