Should schools see our children solely according to their future function in the job market? The Greens believe in education being for the public good, and publicly-funded.

Real Progress is not students paying top-up fees; we believe in student grants and higher education being freely available to anyone who wants to learn the skills to make a greater contribution back to our society. In schools, we recognise that classrooms should be places of exploration and the exhilaration of discovery, not a forum for crowd-control.

Improving education means supporting small schools as well as large schools, doing away with the National Curriculum and supporting learning methods that really work, and supporting the freely-made choices of individual schools and their communities. We want more more locally-focussed and better-funded schools that listen more to the needs of parents and pupils alike.

Green Councillors Bernard Little and Jillian Creasy are actively supporting community schools and fighting proposed closures.

Human Scale Education
This is a list of alternative schools which are members of Human Scale Education, a charity which promotes small scale structures within education.

Trend in healthy school meals continue
News of an 8% drop in school meal take up in Sheffield over the past year (Star website 24 August) is concerning but everyone involved must hold their nerve

Castle College goes green
Tthe design of the new Sheffield College with three wind turbines and solar panels will provide with clean, green energy saving fossil fuels from being burnt to produce the electricity.