Other

07.06.19 by

60 fee-paying schools so far this year* have been sent warnings from the Department for Education after inspections found they...

Private schools, Accountability

16.04.19 by

Expecting children as young as four to take tests when they join reception classes is challenged by both parents and teachers....

Policy, Conservative

20.12.18 by

Twenty-one warning notices were sent to independent schools in November by the Department for Education (DfE), new data reveals . This brings the...

Private schools, Accountability

22.11.18 by

Professor Becky Allen of the UCL Institute of Education has written important articles about the Pupil Premium (PP) that I discuss here and here...

Teaching, Other

16.09.18 by

This is the title of a Guardian article which appeared on 11 September 2018. The following (in italics) are excerpts.

Major study of 1.8...

Teaching, Mixed ability

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

25.11.17 by

Given Labour’s bold and exciting proposals for a free cradle to grave National Education Service, failures in the further and higher education...

Policy, Accountability

29.09.17 by

‘Thousands more children on track to become fluent readers’, says schools minister Nick Gibb in a Department for Education press release published...

Teaching, Policy

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

24.04.17 by

With campaigning underway for the general election, the key issue in education is funding. The recent IFS report noted that "between 2010...

Policy, Labour

19.12.16 by

Since I published this article I have received a lot of email correspondence from internationally respected academics. The general thrust of this...

Teaching, Other

11.12.16 by

This article shows that the East Asian education systems that come out at the top of the PISA rankings sink to the bottom half of the table when...

Teaching, Other

29.10.16 by

My article, ‘ Why maketisation invalidates Progress 8 ‘, addresses the concern that the production of high stakes performance measures for schools...

Teaching, Other

07.07.16 by

The DfE today released analysis of the performance of multi-academy trusts, primary and secondary, in terms of value added. The results for...

Academies, Conservative

21.06.16 by

Part two of two (part one is here ) At the end of March Islington received a formal complaint of serious misconduct by me. The complainant was a...

School types, Free schools

21.06.16 by

Part one of two "A five-year-old is five times more likely than an adult of 30 to develop mesothelioma , a type of cancer linked to asbestos, if...

School types, Free schools

29.04.16 by

An 18 month battle to get CEM* to release the raw marks from their 11+ tests drew to a close on Tuesday with a ruling from the Information...

Grammar schools, Performance tables