Opinion

Education is suffering two types of blind spot: can you see them?

There are two types of blind spot: one in your eyes, the other in the world around you. Education...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
News

In Case You Missed It: The Top Profile Interviews of 2016

5. Dan Moynihan – Chief Executive of Harris Federation Harris academies have long been a source of intrigue for...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Sir David Carter, National Schools Commissioner

It’s been an 11-month wait for an interview with David Carter, the lead kingmaker in the new world of...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

School funding, grammars… 2016 has been ridiculous

If someone had said this time last year that by the end of 2016 I would be on the...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

To become education secretary, you should be privately educated, child-free and summer-born

If you want to be an education secretary you should be privately educated, have no children, and have a...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Speed-read: The really quite important findings of the Post-16 Inequalities Report

Earlier this week a very clear, very useful report was released. And no, it wasn’t PISA. Published on Monday,...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Nationality data, grammar schools – what’s the real story?

If you’re looking for good assembly material, it’s worth showing pupils the greatest music video of the Nineties: Oasis’s...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

The birth (and death) of the school health service

Everyone in England is familiar with the concept of the National Health Service. But have you heard of the...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Lucy Crehan, author of Cleverlands

Over the next fortnight, education geeks will be wetting themselves with excitement as the results from this year’s World...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney