Here is a different way to think about education, passed to me by a wonderful head in Birmingham and it offers hope for whiling away the leisure hours of the Jubilee weekend, if such there are.Read
State schools have national minimums in exams to achieve if they are to escape Ofsted’s wrath. In secondary schools, the national target was 35 per cent A* to C grades at GCSE in 2011 and it is set higher for 2012.Read
In common with lots of teachers, I always feel smitten with guilt when I hear of some dreadful politically motivated act of violence where the perpetrator has been in the British educational system. Read
Place2Be is a school-based charity that works mostly in areas of high deprivation to improve the prospects of children likely to struggle at school because of complex social problems.Read
Easter ‘holidays’. It is a very complicated sort of festival if you are a Christian but if you are the majority for whom it is a relatively arbitrary civic break it may also pose challenges.Read
It looks as though our approach to examinations might be in for an overhaul. We know GCSEs are being reviewed but more ideological changes are also afoot.Read
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