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Barclays funding will help parents set up schools under Michael Gove’s flagship policy. Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Since the coalition came to power, parents, charities and businesses have been allowed to establish their own “free schools”. The schools are state-funded and are accountable to the education secretary, rather than their local authority. Critics claim that in some areas where there is little need for them they take pupils and funds from existing schools.
Barclays said groups awarded money would not have to pay any of it back. The high street bank said it recognised that the process of setting up a new school was costly and hoped parents would use the funds to conduct research on whether their new free school would be viable.
The money is likely to be awarded in £5,000 grants and will be allocated over the next three years.
Barclays also announced that it would give free financial advice to academies and free schools and that it would be offering 3,000 teenagers from free schools and academies work experience of up to three weeks in its 1,600 branches across the country.
The bank said it had a separate work experience scheme for pupils in other state-funded schools.
Antony Jenkins, chief executive of Barclays retail and business banking, said the bank was “beginning to address a real problem in society” of lack of opportunity.
A 10-year-old boy has been arrested over an alleged attack on two women teachers.
One of the victims – who were both in their 50s – suffered a broken leg and suspected dislocated kneecap and the other sustained a facial injury, Scotland Yard said.
Both women were taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital following the alleged incident in Orpington, south-east London.
Police were called to the school in Avalon Road at 1pm on Thursday to reports that a pupil had assaulted two teachers.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “A 10-year-old boy was arrested at the scene on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and was taken to a south-east London police station.
“He has been bailed to return on a date in mid-February.”
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Bristol Faith in Action held a 10th anniversary luncheon Monday to celebrate the collaborative ministry of area churches which provide financial and other assistance to thousands of local residents and families.
“It’s a testament to what we can do when we put aside how we worship and focus on who we worship,” agency Executive Director Tyler Franklin said, regarding the nonprofit agency’s impact and influence. About 75
The idea is part of an eight-step action plan to “high-tech growth” set out in a speech today by Mr Willetts, the universities and science minister, who said the government wanted Britain to become the “best place in the world to do science”.
He said the idea for a new university had been partly inspired by an initiative led by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, under which Cornell University is to build a campus on the city’s Roosevelt Island in partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
But Mr Willetts said the proposal, which would not receive any additional funding from government, also tied into the theme of opening up higher education to alternative providers, including foreign universities.
“It is an opportunity to seize the new freedoms which we proposed in our White Paper last year. We already