High house prices and private tutors are said to be driving an education gulf between wealthy and disadvantaged students. The Sutton Trust – which campaigns for social mobility – has released figures, which says the use of private tutors is rising and is twice as likely to be used by wealthier families. Combine this with…
Firstly, let me congratulate all the young people collecting their GCSE results today. As a teacher, I know how hard you have worked to get where you are today; opening that envelope with your heart in your mouth, knowing the grades you’re about to see can make all the difference to your future. So, it…
Research published this week claims to prove that social mobility will not be improved by grammar schools as too few working-class children attend them. Well, yes, that is true going by the status quo and the reason it’s true is that there are too few grammar schools! Currently, there are only 164 grammar schools across…
If throwing money at things always made them better then the world would be a very easy place to run. But sadly, life isn’t that simple and just increasing the education budget will not result in us suddenly climbing up the international performance league tables. Yet the Labour Party manifesto seems to think that is…
Theresa May’s shock announcement to hold an early General Election had barely registered before all political pundits pronounced it a Brexit Mark II referendum. And I for one will be deeply dismayed if the well-worn argument over Brexit dominates the election debate when there are so many other pressing domestic issues, not least in education.…