Comprehensive schools

28.02.18 by

71% of UK adults want more spending on education, the British Social Attitudes Survey 2017 reveals.

The survey also found 83% would like...

08.02.18 by

It’s essential, politicians say, for schools to close the gap in GCSE achievement between disadvantaged and advantaged pupils.

But very...

Teaching, School culture

30.01.18 by

Local authority maintained schools are among the best in the country when judged by Progress 8. I’ve said so before .

But let's be honest...

Academies, Comprehensive schools

30.01.18 by

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...

Teaching, Other

25.01.18 by

Selective schools, Theresa May believes, are the best way to lift disadvantaged high-achieving pupils out of poverty. Those who oppose selection...

Comprehensive schools, Grammar schools

07.12.17 by

This post is prompted by an article in today's 'i' newspaper that includes a table of EU and EFTA countries in order of the percentage of...

Teaching, School culture

14.10.17 by

The last Labour manifesto said a Labour government would impose VAT on independent school fees, T he Times wrote on 16 September (behind paywall...

Comprehensive schools, Private schools

29.08.17 by

Cue the usual media images of girls gleefully celebrating their results and Executive Principals extolling the excellence of their schools. There...

Teaching, Other

09.08.17 by

This is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.

“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...

Teaching, Other

28.07.17 by

Mellissa Benn wrote powerfully about this in a Guardian article of 18 July 201 7:

There could not be a more favourable time for the...

Teaching, School culture

14.06.17 by

Kathleen Mitchell, champion of comprehensive schools and social education, died on 22 May 2017. She was aged 100.

Kathleen didn’t start...

Teaching, Comprehensive schools

29.05.17 by

The Conservative Party policy on grammar schools is abhorrent. It would take a blog and a half to recount all the evidence that has been...

School types, Comprehensive schools

13.04.17 by

The Government wants more grammar schools to open. It also wants existing grammars to prioritise children from ‘ordinary working families’ who are...

Comprehensive schools, Grammar schools

24.03.17 by

The two selective schools in Poole, Dorset, were oversubscribed if all preferences are taken into account. But so were three Poole comprehensives...

Comprehensive schools, Grammar schools

23.03.17 by

I was prompted to write this article by a recent telephone conversation with the complaints section of my Electricity Supply company. I won’t bore...

Teaching, Comprehensive schools

13.03.17 by

This Guardian article reports research arguing for the existence of a class-based conspiracy to prevent the children of poor families getting...

Teaching, School culture

16.11.16 by

I last wrote about Highbury Grove School (HGS) in 2014: I quote 'The parents who chose HG back in 2011 and in successive years have continued to...

Academies, Comprehensive schools

13.11.16 by

After the EU referendum I wrote an article which began by drawing attention to comments made by Conservative Party elder statesman, former...

Teaching, School culture