…routinely used to settle disputes. Thousands die and more are injured each year as a result, with no fanfare. United Nations statistics show that there are 3.2 killings involving firearms…
Sir Peter Lampl: We don’t need no grandiose education
…available. Some approaches popular with teachers appear far less effective than you might think. For example, there is very little proof that reducing class sizes by small amounts or employing…
James Turner: Government should sponsor private day schools to boost equality
…than their state-educated peers. Even when family background and early educational achievement are accounted for, the gap in earnings between someone who went to a private school and a state…
Parliament and Policy: March 2014
…neighbouring boroughs cannot access the hundreds of thousands of jobs on their City doorstep and the increasing number of our home-grown graduates are staffing the rising pockets of areas which…
Parliament and Policy: February 2014
…resource” to reach out to the white working class community, David Lawsresponded:, “They are getting all the additional resources that we have got, which is the pupil premium. They are…
School place lotteries are on the rise
…using banding and ballots, but it is important that in doing so they are sensitive to local circumstances. “Access to the most popular comprehensives should not be limited to those…