Diane Reay: Inequality of the school system
Cambridge professor Diane Reay grew up on a council estate. Her book Miseducation: Inequality, education and the working classes uncovers the massive inequalities in our...
Category : Change Needed
Author Jenn Ashworth on refusing to go to school
by dan
Writer Jenn Ashworth was recently elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its “40 Under 40” initiative. Author of three novels, numerous short...
Attainment gap between poor and better off grows at school
by dan
Not only do disadvantaged children do worse than their better off peers but the gap between them increases during their time at school Only one...
SEND crisis: A teacher’s perspective (National Education Union)
by dan
A teacher writes of the crisis for children with special educational needs or disabilities “The crisis in SEND funding and SEND support is not just impacting...
‘Last night’s episode of “School” proves it: it’s time to get rid of Ofsted’ (TES)
by dan
An opinion piece from TES writer Tom Rogers on the documentary “School” and what it shows about the way that Ofsted are damaging schools and...
Guardian investigation: some secondaries exclude over 20% of pupils
by dan
The government have been urged to act after a Guardian newspaper investigation revealed that a number of secondary schools had excluding at least one in...
Ellie Chick’s results day Twitter video #ForgottenThird
by dan
33 per cent of students in the UK got grades 1-3 in their GCSEs, officially a fail. One of those students, Ellie Chick, spoke out...
Dr Helen Lees: schools, colleges and universities not needed
by dan
Helen Lees, a leading academic in alternative education who has written prolifically on the topic, recently wrote a very to the point piece the Big...
School in the Cloud in action – Isle of Man school
by dan
Teacher Helen Moyer implemented Sugata Mitra’s Self-Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) in Williston School, a primary school on the Isle of Man. Schools on the Isle...
Schools failing to equip students with digital skills
by dan
Young people aren’t being taught the digital skills needed for work 43% of adults lack basic digital skills needed by 63% of jobs. They don’t...