Overloading our schools with teaching assistants, not uncommonly with two in a single class, is less effective than whole class teaching methods.
“That is why if we want to halve inflation, if we want to get growth going and reduce debt, we need to make sure that the public finances are stabilised.”
Teachers have legitimate grievances – including the administrative burdens imposed on them. Some union leaders have a political motive in exploiting these.
The impact of nursery closures on children will last for decades, limiting their success for their whole lives.
I’m seeking the nomination for one of our new constituencies with a programme of liberalisation concerning cross-Solent travel, economic regeneration, and diversification.
The Government urgently needs a growth package – to boost investment in energy, food, transport and other areas in which there are shortages.
Katharine Birbalsingh’s departure gives the Commission an opportunity to focus on families, employers and colleges too.
We have been looking at how we can strengthen our laws to provide the police with the clarity they need to stop serious disruption and will come forward with those plans in the coming weeks.
I declare an interest: I am one of the few MPs with a degree in mathematics. And I have never felt like a data-entering robot…
The Education Endowment Foundation is headed by a person who describes grouping children according to their learning needs and abilities as “symbolically violent”. It should be scrapped.
The Prime Minister’s proposal should be taken as the start of a much broader reform agenda, from a man who claims improving educational standards was the mission that got him into politics in the first place.
The Prime Minister sets out his plan for 2023 – to focus less on politics, and more on the things people care about.
Early struggles with reading are one of the largest, and is possibly the largest, root cause of poor outcomes for school leavers.
If all young people who are received support as effective as Spear, it would mean 130,000 young people moving into employment, simultaneously filling over 10 per cent of the vacancies that are so troubling British businesses.
Inadequate parenting, ideological orthodoxy, and trades-union inertia share the blame, but shamefully ambiguous official advice on exclusions must be overhauled.