…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…
Alliance urges more effort to provide decent education for all children
…potential. The pupil premium has a big role to play here alongside a national programme for highly able students.” Read the full PA report at the BT.com news site here…
Sir Peter Lampl: Budget Announcement Response
…sporting activities for less advantaged pupils. However, the news that all schools will become academies is a further huge step away from academies’ original purpose of tackling failure in schools…
Ofsted calls for ‘battlers’ to be new breed of headteacher
Richard Garner reported on the Sutton Trust/Carnegie summit for The Independent and The i newspapers Sir Michael Wilshaw, head of the education standards watchdog Ofsted, called for more “battlers, bruisers…
Hadley Freeman: So the privately educated are the new underclass? Spare me the sob story
…how those who benefit most from this aforementioned privilege can live in complete denial of it, insisting their success is down entirely to their glittering talent. Two reports came out…