Education
Women’s History Month: What about her story?
Women's History Month aims to empower women by discovering and celebrating women's lives and achievements and providing positive role models and inspiration.
League tables show Gove’s lack of ambition on underperforming schools
A closer look at the school league tables reveals the govt. is being insufficiently ambitious about turning round under-performing schools, writes Rick Muir.
Scrapping School Sport Partnerships – ideology or idiocy?
Of the many billions of pounds that the government have cut in their ideological zeal to shrink the state, few have met with the passion and unified outrage that have greeted the £162 million abolition of the School Sport Partnership grant.
Standards or structures?
Our guest writer is Kimberley Trewhitt, a Researcher at the Reform think tank The debate has long raged over “standards […]
Protest violence distracts from Tory U-turn on Education Maintenance Allowances
The idiots who stormed Millbank Tower yesterday and threw a fire extinguisher from the roof have rightly been condemned for […]
PI no. 7: Breaking the monopolies that control the way schools are designed
The spontaneity of parents, teachers and communities can be mined in new ways to ensure we are getting the best out of limited resources. We need a 'national clearing house for schools' that shares real time knowledge about what works, one that uses clever information tools to pool the wisdom of grassroots professionals.