Nine years ago, the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme started under Labour was abolished by the incoming Coalition...
Read moreDeath by a thousand cuts is a lingering loss of life by a thousand small slices. It could easily be a metaphor for the school...
Read moreWhat should schools concentrate on? Building confidence? Encouraging ‘grit’ and resilience? Developing ‘character’? Focusing on...
Read more(This was first published in Education Forward: Moving schools into the future , a call for a new approach to education)
Is it time for a... Read moreA teacher, known as Ms C, was awarded damages of £52,493 in September for indirect sex discrimination and unfair dismissal after she was sexually...
Read moreIn July 2014, Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, announced* that schools in Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust (CHAT) would receive £260,900 from the...
Read moreTeaching morale is low these days, what with cuts, workload, high stakes tests... And that’s without twitter drawing attention to self-promoting...
Read moreOnce again, Henry Stewart has posted an important article on Local Schools Network. Henry reproduces a speech by a former head, which he...
Read moreI do think we’re at a time, as a country, where this stuff really fits pretty well with economic crises … when you’re in a situation when you’re...
Read moreAs protests grow at so many aspects of current policy - from an impoverished curriculum to the diminishment of local democracy, the erosion of...
Read moreCo-authored by Roger Titcombe and Janet Downs
The government increasingly involves itself in what should be taught and how it should be...
Read moreI have spent much of the last two weeks trying to get to grips with the extent of the current teacher shortages for an article in the Guardian,...
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