The Thirty Years War: My life reporting on education

If you’re ever invited to visit the Department for Education’s swanky building in Westminster, look out for the spiders....

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Opinion

TIMSS Results? Well, at least the kids are all right. The rest of us however….

While the news headlines have been dominated by how clever (or not) England’s children were revealed to be in...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Lucy Kellaway, co-founder, Now Teach

It is a cliché of modern times that awful education policies are followed by a plethora of so-called “open...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

More schooling won’t stop alt-right thinking

In light of Trump’s win and growing concerns about an “alt-right” agenda both in the States and here (for...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Man up, Hammond, and show your face to the cameras

I wrote a grumpy thing this week. Twice a year, when the Chancellor announces their budgets in the Commons,...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Louise Holmes, founder, EdCentral

It is the small moments in schools that turn a child’s life. A kind word, the winning of a...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

The 18th century forerunners of the Michaela School model

Last weekend, The Sunday Times published a lengthy article about Michaela, the north London free school that styles itself...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

“Post-truth” politics & the grammar debate: How schools will be dragged into the fray

Official statistics show there are more than 14 million parents with dependent children in the UK. About 12 million...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Grammar schools aren’t from the 1950s, they’re from the Middle Ages

It is very trendy to say that reviving grammar schools would be a return to the 1950s. However, grammar...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney