Spot the difference: How much money can a free school make?
As Political Scrapbook noted this afternoon: “Michael Gove uses the Leveson Inquiry as a platform to float right-wing…
Education
Why teachers need our support
Yesterday the NASUWT and NUT, which together represent more than 80% of teachers, announced plans for a possible…
Standardisation – a testing question
A-levels, GCSEs, GCEs, Highers, Standard Grades, 11-plus, and SATs. Comprehensives, key stages and grammars. Sixth form, primary, secondary…
The pupil premium is simply unfair
According to Michael Gove, the pupil premium “goes to every child eligible for free school meals and is…
Where are the good jobs for non-graduates?
With the release of new ONS statistics this week, the press has again demonstrated its tendency to focus…
Tory-led Government hits aspirations as student applications fall
Today’s UCAS application figures give us a stark reminder that the Tory-led Government’s policies are failing not just…
Fair Access to Higher Education
Higher education in Europe is going through the biggest changes since the Renaissance. With the UK’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat…
The biggest critics of bad teaching are good teachers
When I think of what inspired me at school, it was the faith that my most determined teachers…
Downhills Primary – important questions on Gove’s education agenda
This week in Parliament David Lammy MP will challenge Education Ministers’ plans to force a primary school in…
Labour must avoid Gove’s trap
Michael Gove’s childish nonsense in calling his critics “Ideologues happy with failure” has forced me back into the…
