…cent in disadvantaged areas. If this is the case, it suggests that the information about the new loan repayments may be proving more attractive to young women than to young…
Opening up our top comprehensives
…or an often ill-defined definition of religiosity in the case of faith schools, where ballots among members of a faith would be less arbitrary. Doing nothing should not be an…
Jeremy Hodgen: We need maths to age 18 now
…case for the value and relevance of mathematics. The study we publish today suggests that focusing on the “simple maths in complex settings” that is needed at work is one…
Nature and nurture
…there is an appreciation that success in life is not just about being clever in this narrow sense. Read Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, for a compelling case on why we…
Parent power for all
…the capital, there is undoubtedly also a case that ‘unlucky’ children lose out on access to many of the most successful schools because they are born into low or middle…
White noise
…teaching, and the pedagogical input from Lead schools is in many cases poor. Many will argue. Arguments concerning redistributing resources from the more successful to the less so will I…