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01.09.16 by

Academies, so the Government says, are so necessary for school improvement that it wants all English schools to convert. But the data for this...

SATs

15.04.16 by

Bradley Simmons, Ofsted regional director for the South East, recently wrote to Reading Borough Council raising concerns about the drop in GCSE...

Teaching, Academies

07.04.16 by

SATS: One Parent’s Dilemma

English children are now the most heavily tested in the world – and a revolt is building within weeks of the...

Teaching, Other

26.03.16 by

The speech by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan to the NASUWT conference had a ‘relatively polite reception’, Schools Week writes. But a few jeers...

Teaching, Policy

03.03.16 by

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The government has announced that all schools are to be forced to become academies . However the...

School types, Academies

13.02.16 by

The cognitive development of individual pupils should become the key objective of the primary and secondary school curriculum and there should be...

School culture, Other

13.02.16 by

Yesterday, the Guardian published an excellent piece by journalist John Harris on the death of creativity and enjoyment of learning our state...

Teaching, School culture

04.02.16 by

Social mobility, or rather evidence of the increasing lack of it, is rarely out of the news. In my book, ‘ Learning Matters ‘ I argue that, ‘there is... Read more

Teaching, School culture

22.01.16 by

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This book is a truly collaborative effort, a distillation of the thinking and writing of...

Teaching, Mixed ability

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...

Teaching, School culture