There has been much debate in the media this week about the growing industry of tuition. As an owner of two tuition centres, I don’t see this as an indication of wealthy parents trying to buy their child success. Rather, in my view, the clamour for tuition is a sad indictment of the failure of…
Further evidence of the demand for grammar school places has been revealed in newly released government data. It shows there are 11,000 more grammar school pupils in England now than there were in 2010. And if the current rate of growth continues, the equivalent of 24 extra grammar schools will have been added by 2021…
Last week, the government’s chosen new social mobility chief, Dame Martina Milburn, made a pronouncement I totally concur with – we do not need a nation of Oxford degrees. For many years I have said that successive governments have put far too much emphasis on the academic route of life. It is a fact that…