Politics

Uphill battle for Freya

A 12-year-old pupil from Salisbury has completed a gruelling seven-hour bike ride to raise money for Sport Relief, which...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
News

Three-day course lifts pupil scores

A new study has revealed pupils taking the controversial European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) qualification on average score the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Skills or knowledge: which is more important?

Skills and knowledge are often viewed as separate ingredients of the learning cake, like eggs and flour, added in different...

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Nicky Phillips
News

ECDL lifts GCSE grades, but Ofqual uneasy

A new study has revealed pupils taking the controversial European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) qualification on average score the...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Will small schools be able to breathe a big sigh of relief?

In a week of big news – threatened strikes, parent boycotts, backbenchers shouting about academies – there has been...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Mystery of the missing expert reports

Expert reports commissioned in the run-up to the last general election are still nowhere to be seen – despite...

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Nicky Phillips
News

Oldham College pulls out of academy sponsorship

A college has severed its ties with two academies because it says it is no longer “feasible” to sponsor...

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Nicky Phillips
News

New national scheme will place ‘interns’ in classrooms

Unions fear that a national scheme to place teaching interns into classrooms will be used as a cost-cutting device....

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Nicky Phillips
News

Headteachers expose government school funding claim

Headteachers are taking to Twitter as part of a campaign to expose as false the government’s claim that school...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips