…has commissioning annually for over a decade), we found that a quarter of pupils between ages 11-16 have received private tuition at some point in their life. Each year, about…
Leading Article: Losing Focus
…nation of the burning injustice that poorer children get a poorer education and end up in lower-paid jobs. Mrs May is right to fight such injustice, but it is misguided…
Studying cultures and languages at Nottingham
…dispelled. And, of course, the fun bit of advice was that it’s never a bad idea to take fancy dress stuff with you to university, because you never know when…
SMALL BUT INCREASING NUMBER OF SCHOOLS ARE USING THEIR PUPIL PREMIUM FUNDING TO OFFSET BUDGET CUTS NEW SUTTON TRUST AND EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION POLLING
…premium funding was. The most common priority for spending, identified by over a quarter of teachers (28%), was on early intervention schemes. 13% said that more 1:1 tuition was a…
How a teacher’s character manifests itself in the classroom is often missing from understanding pedagogical wizardry
Kevin Stannard cited Sutton Trust research on teaching practice in the Times Educational Supplement. All too often this “pedagogical praxis” is missed when we discuss the make-up of top teaching…
Starbucksification of schools
…office in 2014. Her predecessor, Michael Gove, had enraged teachers and their unions (which he christened the “blob”, after a monster from a 1958 science-fiction film) with his shake-up of…