Downing Street Says (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Asked which Minister was in charge of the academies programme now, and did the removal of Andrew Adonis mean that the Prime Minister had gone cool on them, the PMS replied that Ed Balls was the Secretary of State dealing with schools policy, and Jim Knight remained the Schools Minister. Andrew Adonis had also put out a very robust statement last night knocking down some of the suggestions being made...
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
In a canteen queue this afternoon, Tom Harris , the blogging junior minister at the Department for Transport, updated his Facebook status from his iPhone. "Tom Harris is queuing for food", he told the Internet. He proudly showed his work to the schools minister Jim Knight, who suggested an important redraft. And so it was that the world learned: "Tom Harris is queuing for food. With Jim Knight"....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
DELAYS to student grants will continue "for some time", schools minister Jim Knight has said. Up to 150,000 students have had their educational maintenance allowance (EMA) delayed due to continuing computer glitches and problems with a contractor's telephone helpline.
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Thousands of pupils across the country went back to school last week. 130 of those schools were brand new buildings. For those starting secondary school, 86% of whom achieved the national standard in reading this year, they started a brand new secondary curriculum. This is the cohort that will be the first required to stay in education or training beyond 16. So their secondary journey will start with...
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
An article in the Times in 1937 reports an exhibition of photographs of school buildings, old and new, as part of a launch of a Ten Year Plan for Children, which demonstrated that ‘only a minority of the school buildings in the country are entirely suitable and adequate when compared with the standard of today.’ The exhibition showed ‘examples of buildings ranging from the old donkey shed Ragged School...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Schools minister Jim Knight on plans to close schools that fail to get a third of pupils through five good GCSEs
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
What do the A-level results tell us? And how will changes planned affect the next generation of pupils? Schools minister Jim Knight and Conservative spokesman Michael Gove discuss whether diplomas will enhance education.
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Schools Minister Jim Knight welcomed news that increased numbers of pupils are passing A Levels, with rises in key subjects like sciences - and maths at its highest level in over a decade. (2008/0174)
Letters From A Tory (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Dear Jim Knight, Today provides yet another perfect example of the horribly disjointed thinking from the government as you continue to push A-levels down a slippery slope. As the results are released today for 300,000 A-level students, the predictions are that the number of A-grades awarded will rise for the 17th year in a row and [...]
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Jim Knight and Ed Balls have congratulated A-level students and welcomed news that increased numbers of pupils are passing A Levels, with rises in key subjects like sciences - and maths at its highest level in over a decade. As...
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
Schools minister Jim Knight today said that he wants every school to offer their students the opportunity to take an extended project to help prepare them for work or university. (2008/0173)
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
Kudos must go to the schools minister Jim Knight for some top class satire at the Sun's expense: TENS of thousands of teenage boys are falling behind in English skills – and should read The Sun to improve, a minister said yesterday. He then ruins the joke by taking it too far: He also urged parents to encourage boys to read books by Sun columnists Jeremy Clarkson, who stars on telly’s Top Gear, and...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
SCHOOLS minister Jim Knight tells kids to read Sun's security man Andy McNab
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Schools Minister Jim Knight said on Tuesday that "significant improvement" is needed in the achievement of 14-year-olds taking national SATs tests in English, maths and science.
Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
- Key Stage 3 provisional national results published -- Need to build on progress in writing and maths ... (2008/0172)
