…excellence is not clashing with an ideology of supporting students at the other end of the spectrum. But our brightest students should go to the best universities. Guest blogger 1…
Ballots and Banding
…learn which school their eleven year-old children will attend this September. For many, it will be their nearest school, and that will have been their first preference too. But for…
Cultural capital in the core curriculum
…Curriculum review there were voices arguing in favour of dropping compulsory Shakespeare and ending a requirement that all students should read at least one significant pre-1900 work of fiction. We…
Evidence can help struggling readers
…most effectively to spend money targeted at children from disadvantaged backgrounds, such as the Pupil Premium and the Year 7 Catch Up Premium. We must also work together to test…
Building an apprenticeships consensus
…predicted that the apprenticeships that would disappear were not worth having “and that would be a good thing”. Sir Michael Barber endorsed much of what Professor Wolf had said and…
Conor Ryan: Grammar schools must give poorer children a fair chance
…backlash from some who see this as social engineering. Yet the heads are right to embrace fairer admissions. And even those who would prefer all schools to be comprehensive should…