Selection at eleven: what do the leadership candidates think?
The reluctance of Labour leaders to face up to the question of selection at eleven has now gone on long
Thinking about school privatisation
The London Review of Books has published an interesting piece on the gradual privatisation of English Schools. It is by
Mass Academisation on the Horizon
Nicky Morgan has wasted no time in threatening hundreds if not thousands of schools deemed to be ‘coasting’. According to
The Transforming Power of Music Education
Anyone with doubts about the tranformative power of music could not have have come across the work of the Venezuelan
SEA’s General Election Briefing
It is widely agreed that the coalition government has done huge damage to this country’s educational provision. But too often
What’s Next for Education?
Sheila Doré reports from the New Visions Conference at the Institute of Education (There are audio files of the main
Nicky Morgan discovers ‘accountability’
Brian Lightman, Head of ASCL, told his recent conference of school leaders that education needed an independent, non-political body which
Policy Exchange ‘Free Schools’ claims in tatters
In a sharply honed critique of the latest Policy Exchange report, ‘A Rising Tide: The Competitive Benefits of Free Schools’, Henry Stewart
