Phillipson was awful. Powell promises to be even worse. I could weep for our schoolchildren with such hapless Education Secretaries. They don’t want rigour, they think exams are too hard, and they are overseeing the closure of many schools following the cruel Labour policy of taxing education. Empirical evidence shows that children do worse under…
The share of children receiving SEND support has nearly doubled in a decade, with spending set to reach £21 billion by 2029, according to an IFS report. Some numbers from the report: One-in-twenty (5.2 per cent) pupils aged under 16 in England have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). This share has almost doubled…
… and here’s what should happen. When then Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that he wanted 50 per cent of school leavers to go to university I held my head in despair. It was argued that as graduates earned so much more money than non-graduates we ought to send more youngsters to university – then…
A recent poll for the NEU (National Education Union) has shown a massive collapse in support for Labour, but a huge leap for the Greens. The NEU is the biggest teaching union. The poll asked for teachers’ voting intentions compared with how respondents voted in the last general election. Predictably it shows vast support for…
Evidence. It is something that we teachers encourage our students to find and weigh-up before coming to a conclusion. In science, if the evidence does not back the theory, the theory is wrong. Pretty basic stuff, you’d imagine. But not for our Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. She came into office with left-wing education theory, having…