Durham Free School was put in special measures after being rated inadequate "in all areas" by Ofsted...

...education secretary Nicky Morgan...said children were being "let down by a catalogue of failures" with no "imminent prospect of improvement".

She said the school was "failing to ensure children are looked after, failing to provide an environment in which children are able to learn and failing to provide the quality of education that we expect"...

...picture given of bullying being endemic...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-30906122

Ofsted uncovered ‘catalogue of failures’ including weak student achievement and low standards...

...a damning Ofsted report found that leadership, teaching, pupil behaviour and achievement were all “inadequate”, the lowest possible rating...

...governors were too bothered about “religious credentials” when recruiting, rather than looking for candidates with excellent leadership and teaching skills...

...It went on: “Student achievement is weak. They do not produce work of enough quality or quantity in order to acquire key skills, gain new knowledge or develop their understanding as quickly as they should. Standards are low and progress is inadequate.”

Teaching was “inadequate”, assessment of students’ work was rated “inaccurate” and “weak” and expectation of pupils’ work was too low. Exclusion rates were high, attendance low and pupil behaviour had led to unsafe situations, particularly on school buses, with “many instances of bullying”...

...Announcing the termination of funding, education secretary Nicky Morgan said: “The Ofsted report into Durham Free School reveals that children are being let down by a catalogue of failures. It is failing to ensure children are looked after, failing to provide an environment in which children are able to learn, and failing to provide the quality of education that we expect.

“These findings come on top of a review by the Education Funding Agency which identified serious concerns about financial management, control and governance. It is clear that this has been a troubled school for some time and there is no imminent prospect of improvement. We have therefore decided to close the school...

...Tristram Hunt MP, Labour’s shadow education secretary, said: “Michael Gove said Durham Free School would raise standards and would add to the quality of education in Durham – in reality it has done the exact opposite. David Cameron’s failing free school programme is damaging school standards – too many are failing their Ofsted inspections, one third have employed unqualified teachers and a complete lack of local oversight is allowing underperformance in these schools to go unchecked for far too long...

...Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said parents and pupils at the Durham school had been badly let down by the government..."...this is best seen as a failure of the free schools policy..."


http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/jan/19/durham-free-school-funding-clos...

Julius Abbott wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2015 at 2:50pm:


It was one of the contributing factors.

The inspectors threw a hissy-fit when they realised these English kids weren't being told they should regard Islam as having equal status with Christianity.

Julius Abbott wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2015 at 2:50pm:



No, of course not, and neither does Herbie.

He started a thread titled: "UK school closed down for Islamophobia".

Yet, it wasn't.

Here's the report, see for yourself: http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/...

What will Herbie's troll thread be about tomorrow - gays, blacks, Muslims?  Stay tuned.

'Democracy' is all very well, but not when people believe this gives them the right to destroy a sovereign nation from within as traitors to their compatriots.

How about some of you juvenile cretins address the issue of Britain's own English school inspectors making a great hullabaloo about this English school, in England, with English pupils, lambasting the English teachers for not having inculcated into their English students a politically correct, forelock-pulling, kowtowing attitude to the fact their English homeland nation has been deliberately socially-engineered to be an economic and welfare-sponging international utility for millions of incompatible ghetto-forming migrants whose race, religion, and national loyalties are alien to the British Isles?

The Muslims and the others in the UK are just following their inherited traditions as handed down to them through their family ancestry, but the Anglo-English who have been working to destroy England from the inside as traitors to their own kind deserve nothing better than group-gassing like the rats they are, and then being reduced to ashes to be thrown into the camp cesspits.

I'm only sorry I will not live long enough to see the day, and to make practical contributions to help with this well-deserved outcome.

I hope there is a secret society of people in the UK who are quietly making their own unobtrusive investigations and inquiries with the purpose of documenting the names, addresses, and photographs of these traitors for future reference.

'Democracy' is all very well, but not when people believe this gives them the right to destroy a sovereign nation from within as traitors to their compatriots.

Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 24^th, 2015 at 5:16am:


I have to hand it to you Herb. It really takes some spunk to launch into a "how about you deal with the issue" lecture after the antics you have pulled in this thread.