Cue the usual media images of girls gleefully celebrating their results and Executive Principals extolling the excellence of their schools. There...
Read moreThis is the latest example from a BBC report of 3 August.
“The very poorest children in England have fallen even further behind their...
Read more' Curriculum for Excellence fears add to surge in home schooling’ booms the Times today.
It claims the rising number of home educated...
Read moreThis is an abridged version of the full article which can be found here .
Politics and education are inseparable and always have been....
Read moreEngland outperformed Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in the 2015 international PISA tests and it’s because of the ‘core-knowledge’ curriculum...
Read moreMichael Gove said he would ‘listen and learn’ in his new job as Environment Secretary.
Speaking on Radio 4 Today (13 June 2017*), Gove...
Read moreSchools Minister Nick Gibb attacks education ‘experts’ in his speech to Education World Forum. But he then sets himself up as an expert.
I...
Read moreThe width and depth of this misunderstanding is demonstrated in this Guardian headline .
New test for ‘growth mindset’, the theory that...
Read moreSince I published this article I have received a lot of email correspondence from internationally respected academics. The general thrust of this...
Read moreThis article shows that the East Asian education systems that come out at the top of the PISA rankings sink to the bottom half of the table when...
Read more1. Is it the schools, the parents or the children?
The Chinese education system regularly scores highly in the international PISA tests,...
Read moreThe Department of Education has been ticked off by the UK Statistics Authority again. This time it was for a tweet (now withdrawn) which said:...
Read moreSchools minister Nick Gibb ‘inadvertently’ repeated the discredited claim that the UK’s position in PISA tables had fallen from 2000. This faulty...
Read moreZombie statistics rose from the dead yesterday in Parliament when Angela Rayner , shadow education secretary, called on the government to review...
Read moreMichael Gove has told “complete lies about Turkey’s accession to the EU”, says Baroness Warsi explaining why she's changed her mind over whether...
Read moreThe current controversy over the owners’responsibility for the collapse of the high street retailer BHS – on top of the shareholders’ revolt over...
Read moreEducation secretary Nicky Morgan firmly believes ‘rigorous tests’ at Key Stage 2 will reduce the proportion of English pupils who are low...
Read moreEducation Secretary Nicky Morgan tried to damp down fears that thousands of primary schools would fail new floor standards by saying the...
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