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Tots feel ‘safe and settled’ as playgroup leaps from ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Good’

Tots feel ‘safe and settled’ as playgroup leaps from ‘Inadequate’ to ‘Good’

An early learning daycare centre is celebrating a positive Ofsted report after more than two years.

Parents blast ‘horrendous’ decision to axe school bus route

Parents blast ‘horrendous’ decision to axe school bus route

Stressed parents have been left with a logistical nightmare after being told their children’s school bus is to stop running at short notice.

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Award-winning musician to become trouble-hit university’s chancellor

Award-winning musician to become trouble-hit university’s chancellor

A trouble-hit university hopes an award-winning musician will prove “incredibly popular” in her new role as chancellor.

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School granted licence for ‘insufferable’ fireworks display

School granted licence for ‘insufferable’ fireworks display

An academy has been given permission to increase gate numbers and serve alcohol at its annual fireworks event, despite dozens of objections.

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Panel set up to improve special needs provision faces axe

Panel set up to improve special needs provision faces axe

A sub-committee started in the wake of a damning report into Kent’s failures in SEND provision has been accused of doing ‘very little’.

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Huge new secondary school set to open at Kent ‘garden town’ next summer

Huge new secondary school set to open at Kent ‘garden town’ next summer

A new secondary school being built at a sprawling ‘garden town’ development is set to open next summer, it has been confirmed.

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Pupils ‘left in the lurch’ after being told not to attend school

Pupils ‘left in the lurch’ after being told not to attend school

Children at a special educational needs school have been told by local authorities not to attend due to “health and safety concerns”.

Praise for ‘firm and fair’ school after first-ever Ofsted report

Praise for ‘firm and fair’ school after first-ever Ofsted report

One of the county’s newest secondary schools has scored highly following its first visit from the education watchdog.

Picnic protest over car park extension plans

Picnic protest over car park extension plans

Children and parents are to take part in a protest with a difference in a fight against plans to extend a car park onto a green space.

Michael Gove could have final say on school’s cricket nets plan

Michael Gove could have final say on school’s cricket nets plan

Plans for a 10-lane cricket net facility at a grammar school could be considered by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up.

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More than nine in 10 children get first-choice primary school

More than nine in 10 children get first-choice primary school

More than 16,000 families who applied for a primary school place in the county will find out later today which school their child has been allocated.

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‘It’s so exciting’: Major £10m school expansion given green light

‘It’s so exciting’: Major £10m school expansion given green light

A primary school is set to expand its intake by more than 70% following the approval of plans which have been in the pipeline for two decades.

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‘My 11-year-old daughter will leave home at 7am and not get home till 5pm’

‘My 11-year-old daughter will leave home at 7am and not get home till 5pm’

Parents have set up a petition calling for a new non-selective school to save their children spending two hours on the bus each day.

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‘My daughter’s nearly six and has never been to school’

‘My daughter’s nearly six and has never been to school’

A mother has shared her “disgust” over an ongoing 20-month wait to get her child, who has additional needs, a school place.

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Headteacher leaves notes on neighbours’ cars in parking row

Headteacher leaves notes on neighbours’ cars in parking row

A parking row has broken out between residents who want to park near their homes and a head teacher trying to keep them away from the school site.

University staff vote to strike over job losses and cut courses

University staff vote to strike over job losses and cut courses

Staff at a Kent university have voted to strike over courses being cut and in defence of jobs.

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Traffic-free zone to be set up outside school after ‘volatile’ incidents

Traffic-free zone to be set up outside school after ‘volatile’ incidents

Motorists will not be allowed to drive past a school during peak times as part of a ‘school streets’ trial aimed at making streets safer for children.

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Aeroplane to become school library

Aeroplane to become school library

An aircraft fuselage and an oil rig’s liferaft have become the latest additions to a special school’s innovative learning hubs.

Multi-million pound college extension plans submitted

Multi-million pound college extension plans submitted

A planning application has been submitted to transform a college.

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University vice-chancellor resigns

University vice-chancellor resigns

The vice-chancellor of the University of Kent is stepping down, following a turbulent year for the institution, which has recently axed six courses.

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