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MP Lucy Frazer announces "additional £3.1 million" for SE Cambs schools

School funding will remain at the top of Lucy Frazer’s agenda, the MP promises Spotted in Ely, announcing “an additional £3.1 million” for South East Cambridgeshire’s schools. This week Ms Frazer said that once the government’s new National Funding Formula was fully implemented, primary and secondary schools across her constituency would get a funding boost …

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East Cambs schools face further staff losses and funding cuts, unions warn

Featured, News / By Tali

Cash strapped schools across East Cambridgeshire face a funding crisis, with all of the district’s colleges set to have their budgets slashed and teaching staff reduced in the next four years, unions warn. Figures released today predict that in real terms 88 per cent of schools throughout England face crippling budget cuts by 2020, with …

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Parents and teachers protest school cuts at "Fair Funding" picnic

Featured, News / By Tali

Parents and teachers alike have voiced their anger and concern about cuts to school budgets during a picnic at an Ely primary school this afternoon. The Lantern Community Primary School was among numerous schools and colleges nationwide to host “Fair Funding Picnics” today, organised by the National Union of Teachers (NUT), the country’s biggest teaching …

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East Cambs schools face funding crisis, with huge cuts to budgets and staff by 2020, unions warn

Featured, News / By Tali

East Cambridgeshire’s schools, already some of the poorest funded in the country, will lose teachers and suffer a funding crisis unless they receive a major cash boost, the country’s biggest teachers’ unions warn. Cambridgeshire’s schools already receive £600 less per pupil than the English average, with £4200 a year being spent per pupil – some …

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Ambulance Crew Show Why They Are No Couch Potatoes

Featured / By Mark Cooney

Ambulance Chasers! Fourteen teams battled it out in Ely this weekend over the quarter-a-mile course laden with a 20kg bag of spuds, all of which had been grown by farmers in the Fens surrounding the city. The two-man team from the Cambridge Ambulance Service were crowned worthy champions, winning their heat before, in the final, …

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