BBC News citing our Private tuition polling 2015. All self-employed tutors should be legally required to have a criminal records check before they can offer private lessons to children in…
Academy trusts ‘no better than councils’
…substantially below the national average for attainment and improvement” for children from poorer families. Read the full report here. The Trust report was also featured on 5 Live news bulletins….
Schools offset cuts with funds meant for disadvantaged pupils, study says
Marie Cahalane reports on our pupil premium polling. A “growing” number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere, new polling shows. BT News…
Pupil Premium: money matters, but nothing more than the teacher
…expensive and doomed effort, and, anyway, schools in challenging areas already received significant funding to reflect the needs of the communities they serve. I’ve always been more of an optimist,…
Sathnam Sanghera: We got rid of empire, now we must fight for social equality
…British calls “the supercilious vanity” of the Foreign Office to our internationalism (three quarters of Brits have passports, compared with less than a third of Americans), tabloid jingoism, food, clothing,…
How can a whole borough have no A-levels?
Sean Coughlan quoted Sir Peter Lampl in an analysis for BBC News online of Knowsley’s lack of A-level provision How could there be an entire local authority in England where…