Anything that looks like a return to the “best-and-the-rest” model of the past will fail. Our modern, diverse school system is the key to restoring selection.
We know that children who are permanently excluded from school are more likely to enter the justice system.
We need to think very carefully about how parents and the wider community can continue involvement in the life of a school when it has transferred to a MAT.
This policy refuses to recognise local choice, is supported by a poor evidence base, and proposes large-scale upheaval for uncertain gain.
Study of the American education system raises interesting questions about the impact of choice on children’s performance.
The Government’s admissions rule for faith-designated free schools is effectively discriminatory against Roman Catholics.
He’s certainly not a racist nor predominately a progressive – but, rather, almost laboratory-standard evidence of the Tory hunger for office.
While others prefer a protest march, we are on the long walk to a Greater Britain.
This week, hundreds of thousands of Year 10 pupils will start being taught the new and more rigorous English and maths qualification.
Vouchers, selection, top-up fees, school autonomy and a renewed focus on the arts: let’s bring the advantages of private education to all.
Brittany Wright doesn’t know who is responsible for education in the different parts of the United Kingdom. And it gets no better from there…
Burnham’s reactionary stance is indicative of a broader problem: a would-be leader who can’t move on from battles lost, but has nothing new to add.
Time and again the Opposition have placed their own political interests above the best interests of young people.
After a positive pitch from Cameron that led on housing and employment, here is a fuller list of what the Tories are offering the public in May.
Both systems are flawed and fail to make the most of our children’s potential.