Nothing can really prepare someone like me, who is used to cleanliness, security, a steady income, a permanent home and knowing where the next meal is going to come from, for the feelings you have when you’re exposed to people who have none of these things, and who live in the most appalling conditions. The…
It’s a fact that must not be ignored – children cannot do the most basic of sums without knowing their times tables. Times tables are essential for grasping multiplication and it’s impossible to do short and long division without knowing them. It’s not ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘learning by rote.’ Knowing your times tables is the fundamental…
As politicians, teachers and parents study today’s secondary school league tables and play the comparison game, isn’t time we changed our archaic way of educating? The whole basis of today’s league table is how much academic progress and attainment schools have achieved for students. Of course, striving for the best academically should be a very…
And so we welcome another new Secretary of State for Education and I for one am hoping Damian Hinds’ appointment heralds a return to the government’s election promises. It’s been said that Justine Greening was removed from the brief as she did not exactly see eye-to-eye on the Prime Minister’s vision for grammar schools as…
As a passionate advocate of education being the key to unlocking the success of the country as a whole, it was great to hear the news of England and Northern Ireland climbing the education league tables. When it comes to reading at primary level, England and Northern Ireland are both now in the top 10…