Supporting your local school
Young people are right to care about the future. But marching while skipping school is only one, and not necessarily the most...
Read MoreWhen environment secretary Michael Gove was secretary of state for education, he presented himself as an iconoclast taking on...
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Probably the most important short statement ever made about teaching and learning is this from Vygotsky.
As we know from...
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Geoff Barton, ASCL general secretary, attacked former education secretary Michael Gove at the union’s annual conference in...
Read More Death by a thousand cuts is a lingering loss of life by a thousand small slices. It could easily be a metaphor for the school...
Read More Inspiration Trust, the multi-academy trust (MAT) linked to schools minister Lord Agnew, has received a letter saying the...
Read More It’s full-speed ahead for promoting academisation at the Department for Education (DfE). Education secretary Damian Hinds...
Read more Starting on Monday, 25 February at 13.45 on Radio 4, The Secret History of a School follows the history of one school, St...
Read more The amount given in ‘exceptional grants’ to academies to stabilise their accounts in the financial year 2018/19 was nearly twice...
Read more Great Yarmouth Primary Academy (GYPA), run by Inspiration Trust which is linked to schools minister Lord Agnew, has been placed...
Read moreFloreat Silver Meadow primary school was due to open in September 2018 in a brand-new building. But the long-awaited school,...
Read moreThe Great Yarmouth Charter Academy, which won notoriety when it opened in September 2017 for saying sick pupils should vomit in...
Read more Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, and the campaign group Save our Schools are organising a day of protest...
Read more'We [the Treasury] were able to increase the education budget by £1.3 billion last year...', the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told...
Read moreTurner Schools ‘blazed’ into Folkestone ‘a few years ago’, claims an article in the local council’s magazine. An unfortunate...
Read more Schools minister Lord Agnew continues to be involved in Inspiration Trust, the multi-academy trust (MAT) running academies in...
Read more Great Yarmouth Primary Academy (GYPA), run by Inspiration Trust which is linked to schools minister Lord Agnew, has been placed...
Read more The values of the Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust are ‘clear, explicit and shared across the trust’, Ofsted wrote in its second...
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