Archive

Regional Infrastructure Programme

27 July 2007

Funds for voluntary sector "infrastructure" in Northern Ireland.

Call for review of academy intake

27 July 2007

Ministers should review the admission policies of city academies to ensure that children from poor families are not kept out, a government-funded evaluation recommends.

Hulme Park BMX Track, Manchester

27 July 2007

A facility for young people.

Joint venture for Manchester academy

27 July 2007

A joint venture partnership has been commissioned to develop proposals and find a contractor for a new city academy on the site of an existing high school in Middleton, Greater Manchester.

Poor could be missing out on academies

20 July 2007

Academies' freedom in allocating places could mean that disadvantaged children miss out, a government-funded evaluation has said.

Academies expel pupils at twice average rate

20 July 2007

Expulsions of pupils in the last year were twice as high at city academies.

NDC aims for expansion after 2011

20 July 2007

A New Deal for Communities partnership in Southampton is to set up a new body to carry out regeneration work in nine other deprived parts of the city from 2011.

School for Social Entrepreneurs

20 July 2007

Training and support for the burdgeoning sector.

MPs bemoan failure to beat deprivation

20 July 2007

The planning system is failing to tackle deprived areas that lie outside town centres, a parliamentary report argued this week.

Strategy sense

By Huw Morris

20 July 2007

Single regional strategies will help balance economic, social and environmental objectives.