Teaching

11.02.19 by

GCSEs and A levels should be replaced with graduation at 18, Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee, is expected...

Teaching, Policy

10.02.19 by

This was the subject of the Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ programme broadcast on 4 February 2019.

As the number of children leaving...

Teaching, School culture

05.02.19 by

What a difference a word makes. The accepted truth since 2010 is that results in the three-yearly OECD PISA tests for England...

Teaching, Policy

02.02.19 by

‘ An exchange scheme that gives teachers in England the opportunity to share experiences with counterparts from Shanghai has...

Teaching, Mixed ability

28.01.19 by

This article contains many quotes from others (follow the links). All such quotes are in italics. The blog site ‘Reclaiming Schools’ has...

Teaching, School types

26.01.19 by

Maths Mastery, Shanghai Maths, Teaching for Mastery (TfM) have been buzz words since Shanghai topped PISA league tables in 2009...

Teaching, Policy

24.01.19 by

The national papers last week were full of praise for Harris Westminster Sixth Form, described by The Time s as the ‘school for...

Teaching, Policy

15.01.19 by

Secondary schools which have been less than good for ten years or more tend to be those with a higher proportion of white...

Teaching, Ofsted

10.01.19 by

‘… comprehensive schools, catering as they do for a broad range of abilities, teach at a level which enables pupils with the...

Teaching, Inclusion

22.12.18 by

Check your knowledge of the goings-on in education in England during 2018

Who slated the Department for Education (DfE) about the... Read more

Teaching, School types

22.12.18 by

This third expose of 'the Gap', comes on the back of a reply I received from the BBC's Education Correspondent, Sean Coughlan, in response to my...

Teaching, School culture

20.12.18 by

I have recently written a number of articles on the subject of the ‘Attainment Gap’ and the ‘Pupil Premium’. Having discovered the email...

Teaching, School culture

17.12.18 by

Minister for school standards, Nick Gibb, is clear . Children who pass the phonics screening test are ‘on track to be fluent readers in primary...

Teaching, SATs

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

22.11.18 by

It’s not LAs who control schools but MATs

After a wait which exceeded the time limit for responding to Freedom of...

Teaching, Academies

12.11.18 by

The present system in England harms all pupils

There’s something in the air – and it’s not just too-early Christmas music...

Teaching, Inclusion

07.11.18 by

57% of National Leaders of Governance work in LA schools

Over half of the National Leaders of Governance (NLGs), were...

Teaching, Academies

05.11.18 by

A Conference called by the Reclaiming Education alliance

'Education is in crisis. Our children are the most unhappy in the developed world , their...

Teaching, School culture