London Fields and Horizon schools praised by Ofsted
Heads and staff win recognition for rapid improvements
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Stand-up to help students with new charity
As tuition fees continue to make the news, the comedian Josie Long has taken her comedy – and her actions – into the political arena, setting up a charity to support students
Plans afoot for Free School for Hackney
Parents and teachers have put forward ideas for a state-funded school that is free from local authority control
Student by day … lap-dancer by night
It doesn’t clash with lectures and pays up to £300 a night. Rowenna Davis talks to students who are funding their studies by lap-dancing
Ten Mossbourne academy students win Cambridge University offers
Former Ofsted inspector praises ‘spectacular breakthrough’ at Mossbourne academy in Hackney, one of poorest parts of UK
Hackney must unite against government cuts
A local councillor’s view on what the cuts will mean for local residents
Students: EMA is a necessity, not a bribe
Sixth-form pupils express anger at their media portrayal as ‘goons’
Ken Livingstone joins Hackney anti EMA cuts demonstration
Students march from BSix sixth form college to the Town Hall to protest cuts to Educational Maintenance Allowances
How to turn 60,000 students into unqualified drop-outs
The axing of the education maintenance allowance to help poor teenagers stay at school feels like targeted government malice
Best primary schools snub government’s academies offer
In spite of the lure of potentially more cash, several are rejecting the opportunity to convert to academies
Lessons on gay history cut homophobic bullying in north London school
• Abuse and harassment ‘more or less eliminated’ • Classes to be shared with teachers around country
Jude Law goes back to school to launch film competition for pupils
Actor visits east London academy to congratulate and encourage children who made short film on peace theme
Jewish schools are not a faith school ‘menace’
My local Jewish primary is multicultural and academically excellent, and shows Dawkins is wrong about faith schools
Muslim schoolgirls show that faith and fashion are not incompatible
Students gave traditional dress a makeover after winning places on an Islamic fashion course
Hackney college lecturers strike over cuts
Courses and jobs on the line as further education funding slashed
Hackney Community College hosts Big Education Debate
Find out which Hackney South parliamentary candidates came top of the class