The AI possibilities in education are considerable but there are also some dangers. Because it is something children will grow up with, schools must not ignore it or somehow pretend it doesn’t exist. Its advantages must be acknowledged and embraced, but the negatives must also be acknowledged and mitigated against. AI should be a tool…
One of the few successes of the last Conservative administration was in education. We rose up the international PISA rankings because of the introduction of a new curriculum and a return to more proven, traditional methods. Now Labour is in power it is already planning to undo this success. To sum up, it wants all…
Recent reports have shone a light on the declining standards of children’s handwriting and its increasing illegibility. We must assume that not all of them have careers as GPs lined up, but that there is a lack of focus on it in schools. With the rise of technology including iPads and keyboards it is not…
Labour’s war on private schools is already beginning to backfire and disadvantage all students – rich and poor. Putting ideology above pragmatism is madness and proves that this government does not care about our children’s education. Its hatred of the ‘rich’ has led to it making private school fees taxable at the standard rate of…
A quarter of a century after Tony Blair began the process to get half of youngsters into university, the latest Labour government is being lobbied by the education sector to get even more young people into post-school education. Universities UK (UUK) wants 70 per cent of school-leavers to carry on learning after they leave school…