19-800: The Europa School UK is an all-through , free school and IB world school located in Culham near Abingdon in Oxfordshire . It was founded in 2012 by stakeholders of the European School, Culham and subsumed the former school's campus upon its closure in 2017. It now offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and Middle Years Programme in the secondary section and a bilingual curriculum in primary with English and one of German, French or Spanish. From its foundation until 31 August 2021, it
38-523: A hung parliament , no single party having an overall majority in the House of Commons , for the first time in 36 years . The Conservatives emerged having the most seats, but 20 short of an overall majority. In the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement of 11 May 2010, the two parties formed a coalition government. The new Parliament met on 18 May for the swearing-in of Peers in
57-483: A cabinet committee specifically overseeing the operation of the coalition. Both parties' ministers shared collective responsibility for the government's positions, although the coalition agreement detailed several issues on which the parties agreed to differ; the Liberal Democrats abstained from voting in such cases. Clegg, as Deputy Prime Minister, took Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) when David Cameron
76-660: A charitable organisation, the "English Trust for European Education", in 2008, to investigate a means of continuing to provide the school's multilingual and multicultural curriculum, which culminates in the bilingual diploma, the European Baccalaureate . This resulted in the founding of the Europa School, UK, as an Accredited European School, which opened its doors on 21 September 2012 in a ceremony attended by Lord Hill of Oareford and John Howell MP. The school's Accredited European School status differed from
95-629: A distinct entity from the EU — at the end of the academic year ongoing at the end of the transition period. Furthermore, regulations of the European Schools restrict its Board of Governors to only providing accredited status to schools operating within the EU. The UK's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020 prevented the organisation from renewing the Europa School UK's accredited status beyond its current period. Uncertainty over how long
114-776: A positive of the school type. Examples of this type of school are Simon Balle School , a co-educational secondary school, sixth form, and most recently, primary school with academy status located in Hertford , and Dartmouth Academy , a non-selective, co-educational school within the English Academy programme, in Dartmouth . This article relating to education in the UK is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cameron%E2%80%93Clegg coalition [REDACTED] The Cameron–Clegg coalition
133-671: Is "schools which include at least two stages of a young person's education within the one establishment". All through-schools combine primary and secondary education and may provide schooling over as wide an age range as three to nineteen years old. In 2009, there were only 13 all-through state schools in England, but the Cameron–Clegg coalition government's Free school programme saw the number expand rapidly. State all-through schools also exist in Scotland and Wales. This school type
152-752: Is accredited by the International Baccalaureate Organisation to offer the IBDP. It was also formerly accredited by the Board of Governors of the European Schools as an Accredited European School, but that status was lost on 31 August 2021. All-through school All-through schools educate young people throughout multiple stages of their education, generally throughout childhood and adolescence. The term "all-through" can be legitimately applied to establishments in many different circumstances, but one commonly accepted definition
171-595: Is additionally common in the private sector. Benefits associated with this school structure include giving younger children access to more specialist tuition in some subjects than they might have received at a separate primary school as well as making the transition from primary to secondary school less dramatic and disruptive. It has also been argued that having pupils attend the same institution throughout their schooling makes it easier to cater to their individual needs. Academics and activists with involvement in early childhood have criticised All-through schools as belittling
190-734: The House of Lords and newly elected and returning Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, and the election for the Speakership of the House of Commons. The Queen's Speech on 25 May set out the government's legislative agenda. Of the 57 Liberal Democrat MPs, only two refused to support the Conservative Coalition agreement, with former leader Charles Kennedy and Manchester Withington MP John Leech both rebelling. The Liberal Democrats had five Cabinet members, including Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister – though after
209-825: The secondary school began to operate and the school began offering the European Baccalaureate programme. However, following the June 2016 UK referendum in favour of leaving the European Union (EU), the UK signalled its intent to withdraw from the Convention Defining the Statute of the European Schools; the enacted Brexit withdrawal agreement provides for the UK to leave the intergovernmental organisation, "the European Schools " —
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#1732757235758228-454: The Cabinet and ministerial reshuffle , David Laws , who was a Minister of State , was allowed to attend the Cabinet but was not a full member. If a Liberal Democrat minister resigned or was removed from office, another member of the same party would have had to be appointed to the Cabinet. Each cabinet committee had a chair from one party and a deputy chair from the other; there was also
247-518: The European School, Culham it replaced, in that its financing and administration requirements must be dealt with under the national educational framework, rather than directly by the intergovernmental organisation of the European Schools . Initially only the primary and nursery sections of the school operated until the formal closure of the European School, Culham in August 2017, where after
266-445: The difference between a toddler and a young person entering adulthood as well as being part of a general trend of imposing overly regimented school structures on young children. However, representatives of these schools state that they often provide separate facilities for older and younger children whilst the potential for some adult-monitored interaction between young people at different points of their early lives has also been cited as
285-536: The school could continue to offer the European Baccalaureate programme during the protracted withdrawal negotiations led the Europa School UK to cease offering the European Baccalaureate following the 2021 graduation, and to secure accreditation to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme from the 2020–2021 academic year onwards. The Europa School UK is defined as a "free school" academy under English law. It
304-611: Was formed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg when Cameron was invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government , following the resignation of Prime Minister Gordon Brown on 11 May 2010, after the general election on 6 May . It was the UK's first coalition government since the Churchill caretaker ministry in 1945. The coalition was led by Cameron as Prime Minister with Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and composed of members of both Cameron's centre-right Conservative Party and Clegg's centrist Liberal Democrats . The Cabinet
323-411: Was made up of sixteen Conservatives and five Liberal Democrats, with eight other Conservatives and one other Liberal Democrat attending cabinet but not members. The coalition was succeeded by the single-party, second Cameron ministry following the 2015 election . The previous Parliament had been dissolved on 12 April 2010 in advance of the general election on 6 May . The general election resulted in
342-705: Was the only Accredited European School in the United Kingdom . This status was lost due to Brexit . Following the announcement of the closure of the European School, Culham due to the European Commission 's decision to redeploy staff based at the Oxfordshire-based Joint European Torus (JET) fusion energy research programme to its successor programme, ITER , in Cadarache , France , stakeholders founded
361-565: Was unavailable. Key decisions were made by a core group called the "Quad", made up of Cameron, Clegg, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander , which decided "all major matters of policy" and resolved disputes between the two parties. While the government's front benchers sat together in the House of Commons and the two parties acted as
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