Hinds says Rayner is ‘plain wrong’ – but she isn’t
Labour’s shadow secretary of state for education, Angela Rayner, is ‘...
Read moreFree schools ‘best means’ of addressing rising school numbers, says NSN
The need for more school places is best met by...
Read moreThis is the title of a Guardian article which appeared on 11 September 2018. The following (in italics) are excerpts.
Major study of 1.8...
Read moreGCSE is the ‘common exam at 16+’ created by the merging of the GCE and CSE systems. I entered university in 1965 on the basis of the national ‘...
Read moreDr Montacute’s article is linked to a Sutton Trust media release of 31 July 2018, purporting to show that high attaining disadvantaged pupils are...
Read moreLilac Sky trust given £122k by DfE in same financial year
Lilac Sky Schools Academies Trust (LSSAT) became notorious in...
Read moreSchoolsCompany Trust had ‘liquidity’ issues
The SchoolsCompany Trust, which is losing The Goodwin Academy and its three...
Read moreCrumbling Cumbrian school will receive ‘substantial capital investment’
At last, after ten years, Whitehaven Academy is...
Read moreConsider these quotes from this recent Guardian article .
The system is now pushing schools and their heads to prioritise “the interests...
Read moreRepair bill expected to be £5 million
The head of The King’s Church of England School in Wolverhampton, James Ludlow, is...
Read moreThis year marks a signifi cant anniversary in the history of education policy in this country.
Thirty years ago this summer the Great...
Read moreSchools judged ‘coasting’ will no longer have to become academies, Education Secretary Damian Hinds is ‘ expected to say’ today.
But...
Read moreFormer Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .
Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...
Read moreFive challenges face English schools, Robert Halfon, Conservative chair of the Education Select Committee, said yesterday.
He was speaking...
Read moreThis morning, on Radio 4's Today programme, George Osborne claimed that the transformation of London schools was due to the introduction of...
Read moreThe Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has published what is probably the most comprehensive study yet on ‘The Attainment Gap’ , which has been...
Read moreThere are over 500 primary schools and about 200 secondary schools which have been stuck on requires improvement or satisfactory for their last...
Read more52 secondary schools inspected in 2016/17 have not improved from requires improvement or worse since 2005, Ofsted’s Annual Report for 2016/17...
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