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View Questions by Category: No category found Browse "General" Questions There are 11 questions found in this category: What Council resolutions have been broken in relation to Putting the Learner First? What is going to be done about the Council failing to fulfil its own resolutions? The council resolutions or 9 June 2004, 8 December 2004, and 19 April 2005 commit the ...... Not Rated Last Update: 2006-02-03 Views: 2623 What did the Standard Board for England say? There were at least eight complaints against Councillors in Northumberland. The reports specifically states that Cllr Davey and Cllr Wright deliberately withheld information from the public and other councillors. One of the summaries also ...... Not Rated Last Update: 2006-02-01 Views: 2179 What stage in the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is Northumberland at? Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is a major government initiative to rebuild or refurbish all Secondary Schools in England over the next few decades. In early 2004 the Leader of ...... Not Rated Last Update: 2005-11-05 Views: 793 Has the council written its education vision and statutory plans yet? In October 2004 Northumberland County Council stated that their future plans would be published for comment by the 8 December - the day before the County Council met to discuss whether ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-11-05 Views: 801 Is it true that NEAG want to do nothing? NEAG has NEVER maintained that DOING NOTHING is an option. We acknowledge that there is a problem with financing in Northumberland and that action based on educational benefits needs to be ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-10-09 Views: 827 Northumberland County Council claim there is no specialist training for Middle School teachers? Ask the three training schools running courses specifically for Middle School teachers.http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/edcom/itt/pgce-ks23/ Want to teach in Middle Schools? Then this is exactly the course for you. School placements on this course ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-10-09 Views: 810 Is it difficult to find teachers for schools in Northumberland? Northumberland has a Teacher \'Vacancy Rate\' of 0.0%. In the other North East areas the vacancy rate is 0.5% - or 1 in 200 teacher places unfilled. Northumberland has the best ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-10-09 Views: 780 When the stage 2 consultation happens will there be any scope for parents to request their preference for the 3-tier system? Both 2-tier and 3-tier solutions MUST be considered as part of the Statutory Consultation. The start of stage 2 consultation has excluded 3-tier solutions but according to the Secretary of State ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-10-06 Views: 762 Does the retention of a Labour majority in the 2005 election not give them a mandate for a 2-tier re-organistaion? Support for the retention of middle-schools, in those areas which wished to do so, was made an election issue by Liberal Democrat and Conservative party candidates.Labour did not make 2-tier an ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-08-12 Views: 794 Who are NEAG? NEAG stands for Northumberland Education Action Group There are 15 Schools Partnership areas in Northumberland, and local action groups in all of them are very active in wanting proper consultation and ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-07-23 Views: 818 What can the public do to help? Be aware that this issue affects all of us, young, old, with and without children. Any change in the education system is going to affect everyone in Northumberland, and their futures. ...... ●●●●● Last Update: 2005-07-23 Views: 795