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The Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS, formerly Independent Association of Preparatory Schools) is a schools association, representing more than 660 preparatory schools. [1] The majority of IAPS' schools are in the UK, with other locations including Africa, the Middle East, Singapore, and Hong Kong. IAPS is part of the Independent ...
A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13. The term "preparatory school" is used as it prepares the children for the Common Entrance Examination in order to secure a place at an independent secondary school ...
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
The National School of Government (previously known as the Civil Service College and the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, or CMPS) [2] was the part of the Cabinet Office that ran training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners.
Rossall School (1844). The educational reforms of the 19th century were particularly important. Reformers included Thomas Arnold at Rugby, and then Samuel Butler and later Benjamin Kennedy at Shrewsbury; the first of these emphasised team spirit and "muscular Christianity" and the latter [clarification needed] the importance of scholarship and competitive examinations.
St Faith's School is a private preparatory day school on Trumpington Road, Cambridge, England, for girls and boys aged four to thirteen. [1] The headmaster is Crispin Hyde-Dunn, [ 2 ] and the school has in excess of five hundred children.
The school was founded as the East Anglian School for Boys in 1881, incorporating an institution founded in 1873 by Congregationalist minister, Dr John H. L. Christien. It was one of a group of Methodist schools established in response to the growth of the middle class, the launching of the Woodard Schools and the 1867 Taunton Commission, which fuelled an expansion of secondary education in ...
This is a list of the 296 districts of England ordered by population, according to estimated figures for 2022 from the Office for National Statistics. [1]The list consists of 164 non-metropolitan districts, 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan boroughs, 62 unitary authorities, and two sui generis authorities (the City of London and the Isles of Scilly).