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Grammar school to admit girls for first time in 207 years
05 November 2024Three single-sex grammar schools will now start accepting both boys and girls after the government approved the change.
Firm appointed to build ‘one of the largest education facilities ever in Kent’
05 November 2024The building of a huge £80million education campus, with both a primary and a secondary school, has taken a step closer to completion.
Council cuts ‘vital’ support scheme for disabled children to save £200K
05 November 2024Plans to scale back a scheme giving disabled children support to attend out-of-school clubs have been approved.
‘Ludicrous SEN schools policy must change for sake of the children’
05 November 2024Kent’s deepening special educational needs crisis and the rocketing cost to the taxpayer is today laid bare.
University welcomes tuition fee increase
04 November 2024Students are set to see their student loans increase after the cap for university tuition fees was confirmed - but maintenance loans will rise too.
‘I shouldn’t have been the last landlord at this 400-year-old pub!’
04 November 2024The former landlord of a once-popular pub has joined the fight to stop it being turned into a study centre for private school pupils.
Uni professor blasts ‘ridiculous’ bosses as support dog banned from campus
30 October 2024A university professor has been banned from bringing his emotional support dog to work because bosses say it poses a health and safety risk.
Parents fighting for new secondary school step up campaign
29 October 2024Campaigners are lobbying for a new secondary school as their children face “intolerable” daily journeys to class.
Main route closed for school expansion
29 October 2024A main route through a village has been shut to allow for road upgrades as part of a scheme to double the number of places at a primary school.
The hardest secondary schools to get into in Kent and why
29 October 2024Kent’s most popular secondary schools are denying places to as many as four out of five children listing them as their first choice.
‘They’ve got to step in - this is harming children’: Parents call for phone-free childhood
28 October 2024Can children cope without a smartphone until age 14 or 16? Thousands of Kent parents think so and they’re on a mission to change things.
Thousands sign petition to stop cuts at children’s centre
27 October 2024A petition with more than 6,000 signatures has been submitted to the county council after protests against funding cuts at children's centres.
Council eyes cuts to ‘short breaks’ for disabled children to save £200K
23 October 2024A scheme giving disabled children support to attend out-of-school clubs could be scaled back as demand puts too much pressure on council coffers.
Flood-hit school which lost thousands of books opens new library
21 October 2024Children at one primary school say they “can’t wait” to use their new reading space a year after the site was badly flooded.
Former pupil returns as teacher - and finds his face on staff room tea towel
19 October 2024A former primary school pupil has come full circle as he returns as a teacher nearly two decades years later and makes a remarkable discovery.
Teacher who taught hundreds of children during 25 years at Kent school dies
18 October 2024A much-loved former teacher who worked at the same school across three decades is being remembered after her death aged 80.
Primary school reopens after large sinkhole appeared outside
18 October 2024Work is still being carried out on a school’s access road after a sinkhole appeared outside.
Make childhood memories last forever
18 October 2024We bring reception class pictures together from more than 200 schools for the First Class supplements available from Wednesday, November 6.
Primary school closed after large sinkhole appears outside
17 October 2024Parents were told not to bring their children into a school after a burst water main saw a large sinkhole open outside the entrance.
Dad of ‘distraught’ autistic boy says school is ‘like a detention centre’
16 October 2024A dad has pulled his autistic son out of a secondary school which he claims is “obsessed” with dishing out detentions.
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