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…
I have spent a lifetime in the classroom engaging with children aged between 16 and 18 – and the vast majority are not politically aware. Giving them the vote is a cynical move by the government because they naively assume youngsters will put a ‘X’ by their candidates’ names. It goes against the trend of…
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…