Sentences with phrase «yesterday by education secretary»

The funding was announced yesterday by education secretary Justine Greening, and aims to support the government's mission to create more the 600,000 extra school places by 2021.

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Education secretary Michael Gove and defence secretary Philip Hammond generated headlines of their own yesterday by revealing they would vote to leave the European Union if a referendum were held now.

The US Department of Education, helmed by its new secretary, Betsy DeVos, yesterday misspelled the name of African American historian and civil - rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois in a tweet.

Visiting Bristol yesterday as part of Labour's city conversation, to help elect Marvin Rees as city mayor, shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg highlighted the government's swingeing cuts with new build funding for schools slashed by a massive 57 %, against a general 30 % cut in most other spending areas.

Plans for no - notice Ofsted visits were put forward by Education Secretary Michael Gove in the Commons yesterday in the wake of investigations into allegations of a «Trojan Horse» plot by hard - line Muslims at a number of Birmingham schools.

Yesterday, Schools Week reported on analysis by Education Datalab which showed almost 1,200 schools would be defined as «coasting», as a definition for the term was finally put forward by education secretary NickEducation Datalab which showed almost 1,200 schools would be defined as «coasting», as a definition for the term was finally put forward by education secretary Nickeducation secretary Nicky Morgan.

Yesterday, the Equity and Excellence Commission — an advisory committee chartered by Congress — issued a series of recommendations to Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

RICHMOND, Va. — Seven Virginia public schools are among the 329 schools named yesterday by U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. as 2016 National Blue Ribbon Schools.

Children are to be taught about sexual consent from the age of 11, in plans announced by education secretary Nicky Morgan yesterday.

Rayner said she was disappointed by the comments, and, borrowing a phrase used by Hinds just yesterday, said the education secretary «seems to need reminding that the mere repetition of a falsehood does not turn it into the truth».

The # 2,000 prize was presented to Jon Richards and Ed Simkins for The World in Infographics: Animal Kingdom (Wayland) by Tristram Hunt, shadow secretary of state for education, at a ceremony yesterday (2nd December) at the House of Commons.