Opinion

A former minister’s view: thoughts on the school-led system

Five areas need to be given priority if schools-led system is to become a reality English schools have a...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

From the frontline: thoughts on the school-led system

Former executive principal Ros McMullen sets out her vision of what a school-led system now needs. In the first...

Ros McMullen
Ros McMullen
Opinion

People in education are not saints: we need to have difficult conversations about money

Conversations about money in education are difficult, tinged as they often are with a sense that real teachers are...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

National funding formula: We might benefit from the change but the government needs to be bolder

Southend High School for Boys is one of many schools that gets a “raw deal” under the current funding...

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
Opinion

National funding formula: ‘The debate should be a marathon not a sprint’

The publication of the national funding formula consultation yesterday has fired the starting pistol on the race to create...

Sophie Scott
Sophie Scott
Opinion

How my school helped Traveller children

There are simple, practical methods for integrating Traveller children into the education system, as my school has shown, yet...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

‘Setting targets does nothing good for pupils – it can even make things worse’

It’s time to ditch a culture of misused statistics and instead come up with a fairer system for measuring...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Transparency is needed from schools commissioners, not marketing

Six months ago I sat in a room in Oxfordshire full of top school leaders – mostly chiefs of...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips
Opinion

Forget the local school model, we need to break the housing price influence

The evidence is clear: local schools favour well-off parents, while more enrolment in publicly-funded private schools increases equity. The...

Nicky Phillips
Nicky Phillips