School types

29.05.17 by

The Conservative Party policy on grammar schools is abhorrent. It would take a blog and a half to recount all the evidence that has been...

School types, Comprehensive schools

29.03.17 by

This chart is taken from this article in The Conversation, and shows the proportion of children that get into grammar schools by...

School types, Grammar schools

13.03.17 by

This Guardian article reports research arguing for the existence of a class-based conspiracy to prevent the children of poor families getting...

Teaching, School culture

11.03.17 by

The last week has not been good for schools worried about money. The Chancellor seems immune to warnings about the state of school funding. The...

School types, Free schools

11.02.17 by

At the end of last year the Local Schools Network website passed one million unique viewers, in the years since our launch. Here are our top ten...

School types, Academies

30.12.16 by

I do think we’re at a time, as a country, where this stuff really fits pretty well with economic crises … when you’re in a situation when you’re...

School culture, Workplace

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...

School types, Grammar schools

21.12.16 by

A group of Kent head teachers has asked us to publish this letter that they have written to Theresa May regarding her policy of opening new...

School types, Grammar schools

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...

Teaching, Other

11.12.16 by

This 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...

Teaching, Other

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...

Teaching, School culture

17.09.16 by

Ever since Theresa May announced her policy of more grammar schools, I have been trying to work out the reasoning. Surely if it is not defeated in...

School types, Grammar schools

01.09.16 by

In the autumn of 1973, an article by Milton Friedman appeared in the New York Times . Entitled ‘Selling Schools like Groceries’, the piece was...

Teaching, School types

19.08.16 by

The new Conservative Prime Minister has indicated her willingness to allow the creation of new grammar schools and selection at age 11 in the...

School types, Academies

06.08.16 by

Since 2010, a number of big ‘edu-businesses’ have entered the new market created by New Labour’s academies programme, a market which has developed...

School types, Academies

17.07.16 by

Last week's Education Policy Institute report is an addition to the growing body of evidence that Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) do not result in...

School types, Academies

04.07.16 by

So another of Gove's heros has fallen. Sir Greg Martin , one time head of the Durand Academy, fawned over by politicians on both sides of the...

School types, Academies

24.06.16 by

Earlier this month, the Department for Education announced that Amanda Spielman, the current chair of Ofqual, will be replacing Sir Michael...

School culture, School types