Toby Greany Back in 2006-07 I acted as special advisor to the House of Commons Education Select Committee for an enquiry on Building Schools for the Future. Labour’s Barry Sheerman MP was the committee’s longstanding chair back then and it…
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Select Committee Academies report: a clear-headed action plan for a new Secretary of State
Tagged with: academies, Education Select Committee, free schools, Select Committee report on academies and free schools, Toby Greany
Posted in Education policy, Schools
Posted in Education policy, Schools
Politicians should be held accountable when their pet experiments fail
Frank Coffield The closure of a third ‘free’ school, this time in Durham, raises some very serious issues for our whole education system and for our democracy. The coalition government invested £900,000 of taxpayers’ money in the Durham free school…
English and maths skills: do England’s young people catch up once they’re in the workplace?
Brian Creese, National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) I have lamented here before that while the OECD’s comparative assessment of 15-year-olds (PISA) is deemed sufficiently important to cause entire shifts in a country’s education policies, the adult…
Tagged with: Brian Creese, literacy and maths skills, NRDC, PIACC, PISA
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, International comparisons
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, International comparisons
A caricature of character education? Morgan needs a broader vision
John White The Department for Education has just invited schools and other bodies to bid for money to support projects in character education. Since her appointment last July, Nicky Morgan has shown an especial interest in this area. In a…
Tagged with: British Values, character education, national curriculum, Nicky Morgan
Posted in curriculum & assessment, Education policy
Posted in curriculum & assessment, Education policy
Looking and listening in Shanghai: what’s beneath the headlines and slogans?
Chris Husbands sends a China diary The trick of optical illusions is that we see what we want to see. Our preconceptions and our prejudices shape the way we process what we observe. As a result, there is nothing, perhaps,…
Tagged with: Chris Husbands, education in Shanghai, PISA
Posted in curriculum & assessment, Education policy, International comparisons
Posted in curriculum & assessment, Education policy, International comparisons
