…need to be smaller, with specialist committees on audit, finance and pay that are MAT-wide. Sir Michael says governors and trustees should avoid “marginal issues” of day-to-day management that ought…
Access not apartheid
…of a wider agenda to improve social mobility. It is one of ten big ideas in our Mobility Manifesto which we commend to all the parties for May. We don’t…
The privileged are taking over the arts
…that golden age was just about to come. As he wrote his venerable text in the Hull of the mid-1950s, not far down the road, in another northern port, a…
Nature and nurture
…argued that the whole idea of splitting traits such as IQ into separate components of heredity and environment is scientifically indefensible: we are the product of the complex dance in…
Freedom to teach well?
…coming year. The truth is, whatever the arguments over school structures, it is in improving the quality of our 430,000-strong teaching workforce that the greatest gains in standards can be…
UK graduates face decades of debt, study shows
…will leave university with debt worth more than £44,000 – approximately £20,000 more than under the previous fee and loan regime. … Commenting on the study, Conor Ryan, director of…