Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, and the campaign group Save our Schools are organising a day of protest...
Read moreSpecial needs pupils being let down
Councils spent nearly £100m in the past four years on fighting appeals against their...
Read moreI refer to the work of Professor Rebecca (Becky) Allen , Director of the Centre for Education Improvement Science, UCL Institute of Education, who...
Read moreConsider these quotes from this recent Guardian article .
The system is now pushing schools and their heads to prioritise “the interests...
Read moreRedundancies at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy threaten ‘broadest’ curriculum
Inspiration Trust runs two secondary...
Read moreI recently wrote an article about the deficit at Casterton College, Rutland, a successful secondary school with a good Ofsted rating and a...
Read moreThe unions are crying wolf over school funding for English schools. That’s the opinion of Mark Lehain, former head of Bedford Free School and now...
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 moreTim Coulson, former Regional Schools Commissioner (RSC) for the East of England, is now chair of governors at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy...
Read moreSchools minister Nick Gibb was clear : 86% of mainstream free schools approved since 2014 have been where school places were needed ‘and the...
Read moreThere are permanent ‘system risks’ in education which need constant oversight, Department for Education (DfE) accounts reveal. If these risks are...
Read moreThe last week has not been good for schools worried about money. The Chancellor seems immune to warnings about the state of school funding. The...
Read moreThe Department for Education has accepted a questionnaire response from Ebenezer Scrooge. The survey completed in his name canvasses parents and...
Read moreI last wrote about Highbury Grove School (HGS) in 2014: I quote 'The parents who chose HG back in 2011 and in successive years have continued to...
Read moreIt's been a busy couple of weeks. No I don't mean trying to keep up with the headlines or the fallout from the headlines, though I can't say that...
Read moreThe academization programme is ‘at best an untested experiment’; at worst, it’s ‘an almost wilful throwing-away of aspects of the post-war...
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 moreRumblings of discontent about education policy in England are developing into a roar. And it’s not from the usual suspects known collectively as ‘...
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