schools
Improvement in our schools is not helped by Ofsted’s soundbites
For the second time this week the education sector has taken a beating, this time with the Ofsted report on the way that schools support high ability pupils.
Simply making exams harder does not guarantee higher standards
To date school leaders have not been consulted over the development of the new GCSE syllabuses so it is highly premature to design new qualifications before this consultation has been finalised. It is now time for our legitimate voice to be listened to carefully and acted upon.
Is school selection by house price really better than selection by ability?
The Guardian reports today that that a growing gap in household incomes and rising house prices have made England's top state-funded comprehensive and academy schools more socially exclusive.
Ring-fencing the NHS and schools is no longer viable
The chancellor went on the Today programme this morning to trumpet his success in getting seven government departments to agree on their budgets for 2015-16 as part of the Spending Review that he will announce on 26 June. It is reported that they have all agreed to cuts of between 8 and 10 per cent.
Michael Gove should be held to account over the crisis facing London’s schools
I would like to see Michael Gove asked the following question: does he stand for every school child, or just those who attend academies and free schools?
School spending cannot be cut like this without compromising standards
I cannot be the only person with personal experience of managing schools whose jaw dropped at reading the headlines of the Reform report launched last week: Must Do Better: Spending on Schools. Based on lots of number crunching of data tables, it came to the conclusion that school spending could be cut by close to 20 per cent without compromising standards.