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

Two thirds of pupils from low-income backgrounds not ‘secondary ready’ by the end of primary

This morning, results from this spring’s key stage 2 assessments were published for over 16,000 primary and special schools....

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

Our school textbooks are all wrong

The content of our textbooks is fine – to a point. The books do what they are sold to...

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Expert Contributor
Opinion

Watch out government doesn’t try to remove BTECs from sixth forms

Bill Watkin makes a plea to leave applied general qualifications where they are: sitting alongside A-levels in an academic...

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Expert Contributor
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

Here’s how to get monocultural schools mixing

As the Casey review warns of the risks of culturally isolated schools, Mashuda Shaikh shares her experience of helping...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
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

Don’t abandon new mothers to maternity leave – let us keep working!

A family-friendly culture shift in schools would help to stem the teacher retention crisis and improve wellbeing for all...

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Expert Contributor
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