The disaster of this government’s education policies is beginning to be realised – but far worse is to come. We now know – thanks to The Times – that 13,000 children have deserted private sector schools in 2024-2025 – way more than the 3,000 anticipated by the government. The list of schools closing grows longer…
Following the guilty plea by Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana the government was out of the blocks quicker than Usain Bolt to order an inquiry. And yet it refuses to hold an inquiry about the decades-long systematic rape and abuse of young girls by men with mainly Pakistani heritage. There are grave suspicions that authorities…
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…
Labour and the unions are preparing to damage our education system and harm our children. It has been reported that the new government wants to reduce testing and move away from learning times tables and basic grammar. This will be disastrous. Since the new syllabus – which I advised on – was introduced in 2014,…
Here we go again. A new government has vowed to shake up what is taught in schools. A feminist professor, Becky Francis, has been appointed to ‘breathe new life’ into an ‘outdated’ curriculum and a new education secretary wants to stamp her mark on the system. It is worth noting here that England has been…