…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…
Parliament and Policy: June 2014
…MP Alex Cunningham and Conservative children’s minister Liz Truss on child care. Click here to view the discussion. 18 June – The Education Select Committee report The Education Select Committee…
Parliament and Policy: January 2014
See below for January’s mentions of the Sutton Trust and EEF in Parliament. 29 January 2014 – Education Select Committee Conor Ryan, Director of Research and Communications at the Sutton…