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  • Linear A Levels: Love Them or Loathe Them?

    Linear A levels, love them or loathe them, are on their way back. A number of people are pointing out all the problems that may arise with their re-introduction, including some worried folk from universities who use the AS grade in determining whether to make an offer to a potential student or not. In schools some are worried Read more

  • Ha, Ha, Ha: Education is sorted out by Hutton, Heffer and Hartley Brewer

    Newspaper columnists are like buses you wait for ages for one to write about education and then suddenly three columns turn up at once. Hutton, Heffer and Hartley-Brewer responded in today’s Sundays to the sad, early death of Chris Woodhead, the former Chief Inspector of Schools. Will Hutton wants everyone to get on his bus. His Read more

  • Ofsted and the Trivium

    Just before half term I received the following email from a Headteacher of a school I have been working with, the school had approached me a year or so after being given a: ‘Requires Improvement’ rating in an Ofsted report and wanted me to work with them on embedding ideas as outlined in my book Trivium Read more

  • Nicky Morgan and the Ghastly New World of Morgantopia

    Nicky Morgan is reported in today’s Sunday Times to have said: “I want every child – 100% of children entering school in September to be entered for those core academic subjects which evidence shows sets every child up for life.” I would like to see this evidence and I would like to know if entering and Read more

  • Anarchy in the UK: The Peculiar Value of Arts Education

    School’s Minister Nick Gibb said that: “To those who criticise our focus on academic subjects, or suggest that the EBacc is a Gradgrindian anachronism, I have a simple question: would you want your child to be denied the opportunity to study a science, history or geography, and a foreign language?” My answer to that question Read more

  • The Two ‘U’s: Utility and Utopia

    “Dear Tristram…“ No, don’t worry, this is not an open letter, it is just a reaction to an article I read in today’s Guardian that began: ‘Dear Tristram…’ I am not astonished by the picture of randomness and chaos that Tristram paints as I have been involved in teaching for over twenty five years and appreciate that this is Read more