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Academy pupils told last year’s work was for nothing
29 April 2024A secondary school is facing a backlash after teenagers were told their course was ending without a qualification at the end of it.
Primary school retains ‘good’ Ofsted rating despite ‘challenging year’
28 April 2024A primary school is celebrating after scoring highly in an Ofsted inspection again in a “challenging” year marked by the death of a popular teacher.
School children protest over car park extension near green space
27 April 2024Pupils painted banners and played bongos to protest against their council’s plans to extend a town’s car park near their school.
Two Kent nurseries make huge improvements with new Ofsted ratings
27 April 2024Two nurseries have drastically improved in a matter of months after previously being hit with ‘inadequate’ Ofsted scores.
Tots feel ‘safe and settled’ as playgroup leaps from ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Good’
26 April 2024An early learning daycare centre is celebrating a positive Ofsted report after more than two years.
Parents blast ‘horrendous’ decision to axe school bus route
26 April 2024Stressed parents have been left with a logistical nightmare after being told their children’s school bus is to stop running at short notice.
Award-winning musician to become trouble-hit university’s chancellor
25 April 2024A trouble-hit university hopes an award-winning musician will prove “incredibly popular” in her new role as chancellor.
School granted licence for ‘insufferable’ fireworks display
24 April 2024An academy has been given permission to increase gate numbers and serve alcohol at its annual fireworks event, despite dozens of objections.
Panel set up to improve special needs provision faces axe
23 April 2024A sub-committee started in the wake of a damning report into Kent’s failures in SEND provision has been accused of doing ‘very little’.
Huge new secondary school set to open at Kent ‘garden town’ next summer
22 April 2024A new secondary school being built at a sprawling ‘garden town’ development is set to open next summer, it has been confirmed.
Pupils ‘left in the lurch’ after being told not to attend school
22 April 2024Children at a special educational needs school have been told by local authorities not to attend due to “health and safety concerns”.
Praise for ‘firm and fair’ school after first-ever Ofsted report
19 April 2024One of the county’s newest secondary schools has scored highly following its first visit from the education watchdog.
Picnic protest over car park extension plans
18 April 2024Children and parents are to take part in a protest with a difference in a fight against plans to extend a car park onto a green space.
Michael Gove could have final say on school’s cricket nets plan
17 April 2024Plans for a 10-lane cricket net facility at a grammar school could be considered by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up.
More than nine in 10 children get first-choice primary school
16 April 2024More than 16,000 families who applied for a primary school place in the county will find out later today which school their child has been allocated.
‘It’s so exciting’: Major £10m school expansion given green light
13 April 2024A primary school is set to expand its intake by more than 70% following the approval of plans which have been in the pipeline for two decades.
‘My 11-year-old daughter will leave home at 7am and not get home till 5pm’
08 April 2024Parents have set up a petition calling for a new non-selective school to save their children spending two hours on the bus each day.
‘My daughter’s nearly six and has never been to school’
08 April 2024A mother has shared her “disgust” over an ongoing 20-month wait to get her child, who has additional needs, a school place.
Headteacher leaves notes on neighbours’ cars in parking row
07 April 2024A parking row has broken out between residents who want to park near their homes and a head teacher trying to keep them away from the school site.
University staff vote to strike over job losses and cut courses
05 April 2024Staff at a Kent university have voted to strike over courses being cut and in defence of jobs.
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