Opinion

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not

The government's new policies will allow every child to benefit from education, no matter where they live, says Robin...

Freddie Whittaker
Robin Walker
Exams

Swap ‘cliff-edge’ GCSEs for ‘test when ready’, says exams review

Independent Assessment Commission says qualifications are 'inequitable and unreliable'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Ofqual to research impact of advance information to inform ‘future years’

Dr Jo Saxton says the measure was 'really exciting'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Exams

Ministers urged to review exams plan amid covid disruption

School leaders concerned 'trust in the fairness of exams process will falter'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Schools

Academics want reform of ‘narrow’ phonics focus

Study claims teaching reading in England has been 'less successful' under new approach

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Poorer pupil progress ‘increasingly difficult’ to measure

Leaders demand 'urgent review' after study finds poorer disadvantaged pupils' outcomes are becoming harder to measure

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Plan to remove teachers’ hours cap ditched from white paper

New DfE team shelves policies drawn up by former education secretary Gavin Williamson

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Exams

Minister rejects return of key stage 3 SATs, but mulls ‘internal’ tests to boost literacy

Robin Walker ‘not sure’ that more exams are the answer to progress issues

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

Schools cut music and PE, and 7 other findings from DfE recovery research

Report looks at how schools coped with the impact of Covid in 2020-21

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker