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I am producing an item on You and Yours on Radio Four next Wednesday, January 27th about school uniforms. Tescos are planning to sell school uniforms with bespoke embroidered crests. Tesco is promising to undercut specialists by at least 40 per cent. It already offers a £3.75 school uniform without a crest. Many parents are unable to buy cut-price uniforms because some schools stipulate that clothing must bear the school logo. Nearly one parent in in five is forced to buy school uniform and sports kit from a …

By Martin Evans and Nick Collins, Telegraph
Parents across the country were forced to stay at home to look after their children after thousands of schools closed in the face of worsening weather. Concerns over safety as well as transport problems for pupils and staff meant the vast majority of primary and secondary schools in the worst hit areas could not open. But some parents and business leaders expressed concern that head teachers were closing their doors at the first sign of a snowflake. For many youngsters it meant a welcome …

Tim Ross
State schools will be asked to merge under a dramatic cost-cutting plan.

Children’s Secretary Ed Balls set out the sweeping measures, including bulk-buying of equipment and sharing headteachers between several schools.
Education groups will run more efficient chains of state schools and schools should merge to form “federations”.
Campaign group Parents Outloud expressed some alarm at the plan, warning that children will be “lost in the mass” of huge primaries and secondaries. It will be interesting to hear parents reaction to this, it is hard to think how the ethos of …