Qualifications

06.12.18 by

‘…we’ve long been technical education snobs in this country,’ said Education secretary Damian Hinds in a speech at Battersea Power...

Comprehensive schools, Free schools

04.11.18 by

I return to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education,...

Teaching, Other

11.10.18 by

Many struggle to recruit pupils, ten have closed

The University Technical College (UTC) initiative is failing, an...

School types, Other

23.09.18 by

This 1999 paper by Professor Michael Shayer is of enormous significance for the future of the English education system and the way that school...

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

13.09.18 by

GCSE is the ‘common exam at 16+’ created by the merging of the GCE and CSE systems. I entered university in 1965 on the basis of the national ‘...

Labour, Conservative

23.08.18 by

Shortly to be published research by Professor Michael Shayer reveals an accidental breakthrough in how highly significant cognitive development in...

Teaching, Mixed ability

19.06.18 by

This year marks a signifi cant anniversary in the history of education policy in this country.

Thirty years ago this summer the Great...

School culture, Inclusion

10.05.18 by

I have received this response from The Sutton Trust to my article questioning the ‘attainment gap’ .

Research by John Goldthorpe has...

Teaching, Other

03.05.18 by

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...

Teaching, School leadership

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

16.12.17 by

Learndirect, the largest commercial provider of further education (FE) was rated Inadequate in March 2017*. Nevertheless, it will still receive...

Policy, Conservative

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

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

15.08.17 by

A joint investigation by FE Week and the Financial Times which culminated in a court case has successfully overturned a ban on publication of a...

Ofsted, Qualifications

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

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

17.02.17 by

‘ Are you a libertarian or Stalinist? ’ asked BBC Radio 4 Today when it interviewed Michael Gove in January 2011. Gove had been education...

Teaching, Policy