Features

Charlie Stripp, director, NCETM

It isn’t supposed to be like this. The plan had been to meet in a glorious Victorian hotel and...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

Who was the first politician to announce the end of grammar schools?

The common belief is that it was Labour education secretary Anthony Crosland. He sent out a circular in 1965...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Opinion

How selection could – and probably will – seep back in

“There is no way they will get this grammar school thing through.” That’s what former shadow education secretary Lucy...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Andrew Sabisky, political forecaster

In a week in which two shadow education secretaries resigned, the incumbent secretary angled to run the country, and...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Tony Sewell, chief executive, Generating Genius

It’s a brave man who takes on Owen Jones in front of a young audience. Jones, author of Chavs...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Emma Breckenridge, headteacher, Kingfisher Hall and Enfield Heights

In the first months of 1985, EastEnders started, Gorbachev was elected, and Band Aid spent five weeks at No...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

Becky Francis, director, Institute of Education

When Becky Francis was announced as the new director of the UCL Institute of Education, the largest education research...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney
Features

John Tomsett, headteacher, Huntington School

Each week since 2012 John Tomsett has typed a missive beginning with the sentence: “I have been a teacher...

Laura McInerney
Laura McInerney

The Truth About Our Schools: Exposing the myths, exploring the evidence

A historical problem for people in the Labour party is their inability to make hard arguments about education. Sit...

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