PISA

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...

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England’s maths score in the triennial PISA tests has risen by more than ten percentage points since 2015 making it the highest...

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Young people educated in a private secondary school were 12 percentage points more likely than their state-educated peers to...

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Pupils in England are more segregated by ability than almost every other country in the world, analysis by John Jerrim ,...

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It’s vital to fight fake news, education secretary Damian Hinds said in a recent press release .

He’s...

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What a difference a word makes. The accepted truth since 2010 is that results in the three-yearly OECD PISA tests for England...

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Hinds's defence (or is it defiance?) is ill-founded

The education secretary Damian Hinds defended the ‘broad thrust’ of data claims made...

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Forget global – DfE compares UK with G7 for more flattering comparison

The Department for Education (DfE) is attempting...

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Per capita spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland higher in 2016/17 than in 2012/13

Per head public spending on...

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This 1999 paper by Professor Michael Shayer is of enormous significance for the future of the English education system and the way that school...

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Consider these quotes from this recent Guardian article .

The system is now pushing schools and their heads to prioritise “the interests...

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

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening’s...

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He’s only been in the job since the beginning of January, but education secretary Damian Hinds has already been criticised by the UK Statistics...

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The headline is true. But it’s also mischievous and misleading. Mischievous because it attempts to demonize free schools. It’s an antidote to...

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Pupils who engage in enquiry-based learning in science perform at a lower level in international PISA science tests than those who had ‘teacher-...

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Ministers have insisted GCSE reforms were essential to bring England in line with countries which perform highly in the three-yearly international...

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You, too, can earn millions if you’re a teacher. That’s the message from Mark Steed, director of Dubai-based Jumeirah English Speaking School (...

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I 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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