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08.03.19 by

'We [the Treasury] were able to increase the education budget by £1.3 billion last year... ', the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss told...

23.08.18 by

Shortly to be published research by Professor Michael Shayer reveals an accidental breakthrough in how highly significant cognitive development in...

21.06.18 by

In 2016, English primary pupils were ‘the first pupils to take part in the PIRLS study since the Government’s education reforms in 2010,’ said...

03.05.18 by

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...

24.02.18 by

The case for reason, science, humanism and progress, by Steven Pinker

Book Review by Roger Titcombe.

Steven Pinker is Johnstone...

07.12.17 by

This post is prompted by an article in today's 'i' newspaper that includes a table of EU and EFTA countries in order of the percentage of...

21.12.16 by

As our government zigzags on yet another approach for schools, I wonder why, unlike most countries, we can’t settle on a model and Get It Right...

19.12.16 by

Since I published this article I have received a lot of email correspondence from internationally respected academics. The general thrust of this...

13.11.16 by

After the EU referendum I wrote an article which began by drawing attention to comments made by Conservative Party elder statesman, former...

12.04.16 by

Readers of this blog will have heard of the "Panama Papers." This huge leak of documents from the Panama law firm Mossach Fonseca has disclosed a...

19.01.16 by

Many years ago, when I was a physics teacher, I gave a test like this to my top set Y11 GCSE students. The results...