The Schools' News Service

The Functional Skills programme – latest news The Functional Skills Support Programme (FSSP) is designed to prepare practitioners, leaders and managers to deliver functional skills, from developing applied learning to adopting a whole-organisational approach to functional skills implementation. FSSP is available free of charge to all schools and post-16 education training centres and counts towards [...]

Government stats are suggesting that secondary school courses in maths, the sciences, history and geography are becoming less popular. Over 260 secondary schools in England did not enter any pupils for A-level geography in 2007 (15%), and while around 250 didn’t offer A level physics. The figures also show that 11% of comprehensives did not [...]

Teacher unions are claiming that classroom staff should be a priority for swine flu vaccines because of the high risk of working with children. The threat lurking behind the demand is that otherwise schools will have to close because there won’t be enough teachers to cover classes. However Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal [...]