Pupils in England are more segregated by ability than almost every other country in the world, analysis by John Jerrim ,...
Read more'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...
Read moreShortly to be published research by Professor Michael Shayer reveals an accidental breakthrough in how highly significant cognitive development in...
Read moreIn 2016, English primary pupils were ‘the first pupils to take part in the PIRLS study since the Government’s education reforms in 2010,’ said...
Read moreFormer Education Secretary Justine Greening has been speaking at the Sutton Trust .
Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...
Read moreThe case for reason, science, humanism and progress, by Steven Pinker
Book Review by Roger Titcombe.
Steven Pinker is Johnstone...
Read moreThis 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...
Read moreAs 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...
Read moreSince I published this article I have received a lot of email correspondence from internationally respected academics. The general thrust of this...
Read moreAfter the EU referendum I wrote an article which began by drawing attention to comments made by Conservative Party elder statesman, former...
Read moreReaders 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...
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Many years ago, when I was a physics teacher, I gave a test like this to my top set Y11 GCSE students. The results...
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