Keir Starmer’s attack on private schools is not only unfair but hypocritical because his school went private while he was there – and he stayed on. He benefited from a private education. And there are others on Labour’s benches who sent their children to private schools but now want to deny that opportunity to others.…
Once again, the progressives in our education system are determined to put untested theory above years of experience – and prevent schools from excluding any pupils. The initiative comes from the London borough of Southwark and is in response to its previously having a high exclusion rate. It seems that rather than try to reduce…
Two years ago the Department for Education introduced a new framework for the teaching of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in secondary schools. The intent might have been understandable and welcomed, but the result is hard to understand and unwelcome. It has led to a variety of education ‘providers’ supplying schools with assets that include…
An alarming poll of almost 1,000 primary school teachers and senior staff revealed that half of new pupils aren’t ‘school ready’. There has for some time been a percentage of four-year-olds who turn up at school barely able to eat properly and still wearing nappies. Some parents, who perhaps began school in this manner themselves,…
Teaching is a professional job. Teachers must be professional at all times and leave their politics outside the school gate. What they must never do is seek to influence their pupils in a partisan way. It is a fundamental expectation of the profession to present all subject matter in a balanced manner. It should not…