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…
Alarming figures have shown that in every region in the country except inner London the number of male teachers leaving the profession grew between 2010 and 2019. The fall is led by white men with almost 13,000 quitting in ten years – that is a 17 per cent drop in the number of white male…
When I was asked to advise the government three years ago on the new maths curriculum I was hoping for a return to more traditional teaching methods – and to a time when we used to lead the world rather than lag behind everyone else. In fact, our brief was to emulate the world’s most…
As an education expert, I am calling on families across Britain to keep their children’s minds active during the long summer holidays. Studies, and anecdotal evidence from teachers, have shown that children academically regress following the six-week break. As a teacher, tutor and education author, I have noticed that quick and fun learning activities can…