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School sports fields in danger as government relaxes rules
Critics urge ministers to maintain a minimum space requirement for playing fields amid worries over Olympic legacyThe education secretary, Michael Gove, has relaxed government regulations that set out...
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London 2012's school sport legacy? Maybe it slipped Cameron's mind
Team GB's Olympic success has failed to translate into a coherent policy to energise and exercise Britain's schoolchildrenYou would have thought it would be ringed in red on the Downing Street...
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Labour to challenge Michael Gove's school playing fields rule change
Stephen Twigg condemns government relaxation of school sports field regulations days before Olympics startedLabour is calling for a vote in parliament demanding that the government restore regulations...
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Olympic promises to 'inspire a generation' look like hot air to me | Fatima...
It's sheer hypocrisy for politicians to claim they are investing in tomorrow's athletes but then cut back PE and playing fieldsSchool was tough for me. Abandoned as a baby, I was raised in a children's...
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Michael Gove overruled experts to sell school playing fields
Education secretary ignored advice from panel five times over 15 months - more than in the previous nine yearsMichael Gove has gone against expert advice from his own independent panel several times...
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Schools omitted from Michael Gove's list of playing field sell-offs
Ministers have approved the sale of 31 school pitches rather than the 21 disclosed in response to earlier FoI requestThe Department for Education failed to include a school in Cornwall that hosted the...
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Chris Riddell on the education secretary's 100-metre dash away from the playing fields sell-off rowChris Riddell
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Private schools warned: share your sports or lose tax breaks
Departing British Olympic Association chairman wants state primaries to benefit from independent schools in return for £100m tax breaksPrivate schools should have to share their sports facilities with...
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Tory councils are biggest sellers of school playing fields
Conservative authorities have been involved in six times as many sales as those of other parties since May 2010Conservative-led councils have been responsible for selling six times as many playing...
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Michael Gove 'made council let free school be built on playing field'
Papers reveal education department warned that minister would seize premises earmarked for children with special needsThe Department for Education put pressure on a council to allow building on a...
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Will the Olympics legacy help grassroots sport or focus on the elite?
After Team GB's Olympic success, smaller community clubs fear funding will go to elite athletes instead of youth developmentLike a lot of Londoners, Alveenah Aslam has seen the unlikeliest of...
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Education in brief: not-very-free information from the government
Freedom of Information seems in short supply; Downhills school continues its fight against Michael Gove; next up in the recruitment of DfE sympathisers - governorsOpaque governmentA freedom of...
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Teachers speak their mind to Mr Gove
Teachers are jumping at an opportunity to leave voicemails for the education secretary. Education Guardian reveals what Michael Gove will be hearingLast month an education recruitment agency set up a...
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Dear Mr Gove: Michael Rosen's letter from a curious parent
Big education stories this summer about school sport and English GCSE marking, but where was the education secretary at the moment of crisis?It's been a difficult summer for me as there have been two...
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Education is in crisis and Labour needs to step up to the plate
It is about time the Labour party came up with a coherent set of proposals for education, says Fiona MillarI always dread the first few weeks of September. I often haven't written for weeks and usually...
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Not for sale – school playing fields (in the US)
As the UK debates a 'legacy' for the Olympics and Paralympics, Joanna Walters visits typical high schools in America, where sports facilities are superb and selling off playing fields would be...
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Let's not waste this chance to turn children on to sport
The legacy of the 2012 Games should be more children involved in school sport at all levels, says Denis Campbell, but inexplicably the government is choosing not to fund itIn north Oxfordshire, like so...
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Letters: Follow the money
I would caution against too much adulation of the US school sport system (Education, 11 September). I had three sons involved in high-school basketball for several years and have attended many a...
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Competitive team sports will alienate inactive schoolchildren, report says
Thinktank says government's traditional focus doesn't suit inactive children, who prefer informal, individual activitiesMinisters' insistence on competitive team sports will alienate schoolchildren...
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Youth sport chief calls for specialist PE teacher in every primary school
Many teachers nervous about giving PE lessons, says charity leader, as Michael Gove prepares for talks with sports bodiesThe head of the Youth Sport Trust, the charity charged with co-ordinating school...
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