Miscellaneous

Half of all pupils sitting the reformed GCSEs achieved a grade 5 – a “strong pass” – or above, UK results show. Meanwhile, 68 per cent of pupils passed at a grade 4 or above, a result that still counts as a “standard pass” Nationally there is an 18.3 percentage point gap between the proportion […]

“Nicky don’t need her eyes to see. Nicky has parted from reality.” That’s the last line of a punk protest song by a Leeds teacher in response to plans for full academisation. National Union of Teachers activist and singer Gary Kaye has released the song – Nicky Morgan’s Eyes – with his band The Enemies of Promise. […]