0370 270 6000

Search

Search Mobile

collapse

already registered?

Please sign in with your existing account details.

Email address

Password

Sign in with LinkedIn

need to register?

Register to access exclusive content, sign up to receive our updates and personalise your experience on brownejacobson.com.

Privacy statement - Terms and conditions

Register with LinkedIn

Forgotten your password?

collapseSign

Browne Jacobson home

Home

Insights

Blogs

Swapping traffic jams for The Jam?

Swapping traffic jams for The Jam?

29 October 2013

The hours spent by students commuting from home to school could be better spent on extra-curricular activities claims the head teacher of St George’s School in Harpenden. An increase of 4,000-5,000 extra places at boarding schools across the country would allow time currently spent on trains, buses and in cars to be refocused on the arts, sport and extra academic support.

Ray McGovern, who is also the chairman of the State Boarding School Association, claims that the thousands of pounds currently incurred by Local Authorities on transporting children from home to school could be better spent on paying for weekday boarding at boarding schools. But will cash-strapped Councils be willing to swap one expense for another? Or are they more likely to continue to pare back home-to-school transport costs to the legal minimum?

Related opinions

The role of benchmarking in setting pay in schools

The use of salary benchmarking data is common place in most sectors in the UK and it’s great to see that CST’s salary survey for school trusts is growing with a higher number of participating organisations and included job roles. This years’ survey includes over 2000 job roles and 147 participating organisations.

How does the UK Education Sector fare amidst the energy crisis?

The world is currently living through one of the most significant global energy crises that has been seen in modern times, with energy prices and bills soaring at an unprecedented rate. With the added pressures of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the slowdown in China’s economy, these soaring energy prices are continuing to strangle the global economy.

Grammar schools revisited?

The words “Grammar schools” are once again being whispered in government and the question of whether the creation of new grammar schools will finally be implemented as a central focus to DFE policy has re-surfaced.

Why you shouldn’t buy a dragon with school budget

As a result of a recent Charity Commission legal action, the former trustee of a Welsh charity was ordered to pay over £117,000 to Wrexham charities which support cancer patients.

View all blogs

Vicki Hair

Associate

Mailing list sign up

Select which mailings you would like to receive from us.

Sign up