71% of UK adults want more spending on education, the British Social Attitudes Survey 2017 reveals.
The survey also found 83% would like...
Read moreIt’s essential, politicians say, for schools to close the gap in GCSE achievement between disadvantaged and advantaged pupils.
But very...
Read moreLocal 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...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...
Read moreSelective schools, Theresa May believes, are the best way to lift disadvantaged high-achieving pupils out of poverty. Those who oppose selection...
Read moreThis 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...
Read moreThe last Labour manifesto said a Labour government would impose VAT on independent school fees, T he Times wrote on 16 September (behind paywall...
Read moreCue the usual media images of girls gleefully celebrating their results and Executive Principals extolling the excellence of their schools. There...
Read moreThis is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.
“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...
Read moreMellissa Benn wrote powerfully about this in a Guardian article of 18 July 201 7:
There could not be a more favourable time for the...
Read moreKathleen Mitchell, champion of comprehensive schools and social education, died on 22 May 2017. She was aged 100.
Kathleen didn’t start...
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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...
Read moreThe Government wants more grammar schools to open. It also wants existing grammars to prioritise children from ‘ordinary working families’ who are...
Read moreThe two selective schools in Poole, Dorset, were oversubscribed if all preferences are taken into account. But so were three Poole comprehensives...
Read moreI was prompted to write this article by a recent telephone conversation with the complaints section of my Electricity Supply company. I won’t bore...
Read moreThis Guardian article reports research arguing for the existence of a class-based conspiracy to prevent the children of poor families getting...
Read moreI 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...
Read moreAfter the EU referendum I wrote an article which began by drawing attention to comments made by Conservative Party elder statesman, former...
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