Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
14th May 2012, 13:16
Schools which find the most effective ways to help children from poor backgrounds could win £10,000, Deputy Prime Nick Clegg has announced.
The awards will be made to 50 schools which make best use of the "pupil premium", a £600 payment given for each child who receives free school meals.
Mr Clegg said this would "reward and celebrate" the improvement in young people's life chances.
But Labour said the premium was being used to "plug holes" in school funding.
The payments - affecting 1.8 million children - will cost a total of £2.5bn a year by 2015.
Mr Clegg said the extra money being announced was not "all about the glitz and glamour of winning prizes", but would help "boost" teachers and the education system in general.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18053619)
God I hate Clegg, tries so hard to look like he's relevant...
And what a bullshit idea..OK, introduce yet more competition into the education system instead of striving for the same standards for all children. Cash prizes for doing something that should be fundamental to any school..fuck me
The awards will be made to 50 schools which make best use of the "pupil premium", a £600 payment given for each child who receives free school meals.
Mr Clegg said this would "reward and celebrate" the improvement in young people's life chances.
But Labour said the premium was being used to "plug holes" in school funding.
The payments - affecting 1.8 million children - will cost a total of £2.5bn a year by 2015.
Mr Clegg said the extra money being announced was not "all about the glitz and glamour of winning prizes", but would help "boost" teachers and the education system in general.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18053619)
God I hate Clegg, tries so hard to look like he's relevant...
And what a bullshit idea..OK, introduce yet more competition into the education system instead of striving for the same standards for all children. Cash prizes for doing something that should be fundamental to any school..fuck me