Skinners’ Academy, Hackney, was judged good in a short inspection in May 2017.
Inspectors said the...
Read moreState-funded schools ‘should be incentivised to develop essential life skills’, recommends the Sutton Trust.
Given the loathing felt by...
Read moreTurner Free School , one of four schools run by Turner Schools, has ‘exceptional scholars’, an ‘amazing PFTA’, ‘amazing faculty...
Read moreYesterday, the Tate group asked the new government to provide sufficient funding for an ‘arts-rich curriculum’.
... Read moreHackney New School closed for a fresh start at the end of October after the free school had been downgraded from good to...
Read moreNine years ago, the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme started under Labour was abolished by the incoming Coalition...
Read morePer-pupil spending in England will be ‘almost back’ to 2009/10 levels in real terms by 2022/23, says the Institute for...
Read moreThis site’s being saying it for years: reforms to state education in England introduced by Michael Gove are a retrograde step...
Read moreBehaviourism is back and it’s taking over
A ‘delivery’ paradigm is taking over English schools. In our marketised education system the...
Read moreThe National Audit Office has criticised the support for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in...
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The ethnicity ‘attainment gap’
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has produced a table showing ‘attainment gaps’ for ethnic...
Read moreFarewell then, Damian Hinds. Perhaps it’s too soon to assess your legacy, but given the survival rate of recent education secretaries, perhaps we...
Read moreThis is essentially an issue typical of historical interactions between the private and public sectors. It is currently topical in the English...
Read moreWhy are increasing numbers of children being physically restrained in mainstream and special schools?
On 25 February 2019 TES carried a...
Read moreIn Loco Parentis
Throughout my teaching career the legal and professional advice to schools and individual teachers was at all times to...
Read moreYou can read Part 1 ‘The role of religion’ here .
The first important step is to point out the difference between the state and the...
Read moreThese are profound issues about which there is little consensus in the UK. Elsewhere in the world states and societies are increasingly coming to...
Read more‘The parents screamed and swore at me,’ says a Sunday Times headline for an article explaining why the ‘visionary head’ of...
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