Schools on the Isle of Wight are set to benefit from a multi-million-pound cash injection from government.
In total, the Department for Education (DfE) has increased the amount of money for Island education by around £4.8 million — the biggest funding boost in a decade.
The extra investment will lift per pupil funding to a minimum of £5,000 for secondary school students next year and £3,750 for primary school pupils.
The deal includes an additional £3.5 million for mainstream schools, £1.2 million for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities and £129,000 for early years provision.
Councillor Paul Brading, Cabinet member for children’s services, said:
“We welcome this extra investment in our schools, bringing the total budget for Island education to £98 million.
“As a council we recognise the pressures both schools and the teaching profession as a whole have been under and they have been doing a very good job at managing as best they can.
“The extra funding announced by the government should help reduce that pressure and is a step in the right direction. However, we do recognise that more money needs to be found over the next few years to put education on a secure financial footing.”
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School results are improving on the Island with outcomes improving at a much faster rate than schools nationally.
Last year, primary pupils taking part in a special targeted initiative achieved a massive 15% improvement in their Key Stage Two maths performance.
All very nice but adequate education should not be in the gift of a group of individuals who assumed their powers from use of the First Past The Post “ELECTORAL” System. Support of only 28% at the recent GE is,I,suspect forcing them into adopting the tactics of the “Benevolent Dictator” in order to convince the electorate that FPTP is after all a good system that need not be confronted as producing unrepresentative,undemocratic legislatures.
understand democracy canasta will you FFS.
all those wishing to stand as MP’s put theirselves forward – we vote, he or she that gets the most votes wins – not difficult is it.
That is fair and transparent.
Democracy isn’t some lefty socialist, every body gets a seat for taking part, commune.
So you would like a system like Ireland has where the latest vote will have to be sorted out by a coalition and nothing will get done. One man, one vote is the only democratic way.
lifting the teachers salaries, pensions and expenses more like.
What an ignorant response based on nothing but your own warped view of the profession
at SAFlyme….
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/teachers-to-get-2-75-pay-rise-reports/
the Treasury will unveil a £2 billion public sector pay deal – the biggest for six years – on Monday, and that the education secretary Damian Hinds has “successfully argued” for a 2.75 per cent rise for teachers – above and beyond the 2 per cent previously floated.
The newspaper also claims there will be additional funding for schools to pay for the rise.
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I rest my case SAFlyme – perhaps you should do a spot of research before being ignorant in your response.
“a 2.75 per cent rise for teachers”
but a large proportion of the work of educating, and controlling pupils is done by support staff who are generally under paid, underappreciated and don’t get included in these negotiated pay rises.
“education secretary Damian Hinds has “successfully argued” for…”
So a conservative minister claims to have been benevolent by slightly / partially redressing the results of years of cut-backs and under-funding (by his partisan predecessors) and we’re supposed to feel grateful?
“The newspaper also claims…” Oh,..I see… your research came from a newspaper,.. well it MUST be TRUE then (LOL)
Cash should be used for a portacabin class room in each school to put all the disruptive, challenged and troublesome nere do wells, so that NORMAL children who want to learn, can do so, without lazy teachers, putting the above type, next to normal quiet children just to ‘make their job easier’ BUT then cause distress to the nicer and normal children.
Keep the trash separate.
Schools used to put disruptive and annoying kids in separate areas to avoid disrupting the delivery of education to the majority.
Those disruptive children were then moved to schools specifically designed to deal with “challenged” kids and those with other special needs.
All you end up doing is alienating the kid or kids further, as the rest of the class get fed up with seeing them getting the focus of attention and seeing others needs ignored, because some do gooder, thinks that “challenged” kids should be in mainstream.
social engineering doesn’t work – in the adult world it is dog eat dog and the strongest survive – all others fall by the wayside and are left behind.
“all others fall by the wayside and are left behind.”… and supported on benefits paid for by those who manage to achieve dispite the challenges
Check your facts This doesn’t even bring it near to spending per pupil in London – https://dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2019/10/11/school-funding-allocations-2020-21/ Mean must be somewhere around 5.5 thousand per pupil in London