EDUCATION: Time to foster teaching vocations

LORD DEARING’s millennial challenge to open 100 new C of E secondary schools in ten years is now certain to be exceeded. Potential parents are queuing...

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EDUCATION: ‘A warm, happy place’

TWO Church of England schools were named in the finals of the 2007 national teaching awards in the autumn.

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EDUCATION: My moment of glory

SIR IAN McALLISTER was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours list for “services to the transport industry”.

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EDUCATION: Australians go for growth

IT WAS NOT an obvious decision for the Dean to join the choir of Westminster Abbey on their long-awaited tour of Australia last October.

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EDUCATION: Building an ethos

The Peter Carnley Anglican Community School is in Wellard, a comparatively poor and developing community near Rockingham to the south of Perth.

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EDUCATION: Middle-class? I beg to differ

FROM THE windows of my little flat, high in one of the towers of Lambeth Palace, I look across the Thames to Parliament, and I feel very close to it

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EDUCATION: Resources

THE DIOCESE of Gloucester publishes materials under the Jumping Fish label.

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EDUCATION: Better accommodation

A NEW REPORT, commissioned by the Church of England, Faiths in Higher Education Chaplaincy, suggests that Christian-led chaplaincies are leading...

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EDUCATION: Village schools start the fight for survival

TALK TO anyone fighting the closure of village schools, and the name that crops up without fail is that of Dr Beeching.

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EDUCATION: Learning to share has saved the day

THE REORGANISATION of two church primaries in Devon could provide a new way of solving the problems posed by small village schools.

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EDUCATION: A brave face on losing your head

OVER THE next ten years, more than half of all church schools are likely to lose their head teachers.

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EDUCATION: For the Angel’s little angels

EIGHT HUNDRED applications for 180 places. Sounds familiar: yet another oversubscribed Church of England school with a big reputation.

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An amateur on prayer

‘Often, prayer is no more than another petty human weapon’

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Interview: Pete Spiers, member of the General Synod’s House of Clergy

I am one of those sad people who enjoy Synod

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