Qualifications

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

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

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

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

21.05.16 by

Analysis by PWC finds that the majority of academy trusts continue to underperform. At the same time, between 2014 and 2015, there has been...

School types, Academies

16.05.16 by

Einstein captured the issue in a single sentence. “ Sometimes what counts can’t be counted, and what can be counted doesn’t count. ” With Maths in...

Performance tables, SATs

04.05.16 by

As protests grow at so many aspects of current policy - from an impoverished curriculum to the diminishment of local democracy, the erosion of...

Teaching, Behaviour

07.04.16 by

SATS: One Parent’s Dilemma

English children are now the most heavily tested in the world – and a revolt is building within weeks of the...

Teaching, Other