It’s usually a three-year ritual. The day PISA results are published is the day the UK media is dominated by hand-wringing about...
Read moreEngland’s maths score in the triennial PISA tests has risen by more than ten percentage points since 2015 making it the highest...
Read moreYoung people educated in a private secondary school were 12 percentage points more likely than their state-educated peers to...
Read morePupils in England are more segregated by ability than almost every other country in the world, analysis by John Jerrim ,...
Read moreIt’s vital to fight fake news, education secretary Damian Hinds said in a recent press release .
He’s...
Read moreWhat a difference a word makes. The accepted truth since 2010 is that results in the three-yearly OECD PISA tests for England...
Read moreHinds's defence (or is it defiance?) is ill-founded
The education secretary Damian Hinds defended the ‘broad thrust’ of data claims made...
Read moreForget global – DfE compares UK with G7 for more flattering comparison
The Department for Education (DfE) is attempting...
Read morePer capita spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland higher in 2016/17 than in 2012/13
Per head public spending on...
Read moreThis 1999 paper by Professor Michael Shayer is of enormous significance for the future of the English education system and the way that school...
Read moreConsider these quotes from this recent Guardian article .
The system is now pushing schools and their heads to prioritise “the interests...
Read moreFormer Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .
Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...
Read moreHe’s only been in the job since the beginning of January, but education secretary Damian Hinds has already been criticised by the UK Statistics...
Read moreThe headline is true. But it’s also mischievous and misleading. Mischievous because it attempts to demonize free schools. It’s an antidote to...
Read morePupils who engage in enquiry-based learning in science perform at a lower level in international PISA science tests than those who had ‘teacher-...
Read moreMinisters have insisted GCSE reforms were essential to bring England in line with countries which perform highly in the three-yearly international...
Read moreYou, too, can earn millions if you’re a teacher. That’s the message from Mark Steed, director of Dubai-based Jumeirah English Speaking School (...
Read moreI recently received this link to a video posted on Facebook .
It is presented by Michael Moore and appears to have been made on a visit to...
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