By David Lee | 28 July 2010
Education policy in Scotland has a turning circle slightly larger, and a bit slower, than the average super-tanker. The teaching unions (especially the archaically-named Educational Institute ...read more
By Karen Whitby | 28 May 2010
Many believe that education has been little more than a football for Westminster. But what has really gone into the formula for making our schools ...read more
By Mike Baker | 26 April 2010
All political parties want the voters to think that they offer different recipes for raising school standards. Yet on policy there are probably more similarities ...read more
Planning is key to schools reform
By Mike Baker | 10 December 2009
It will be the planning laws, not schools legislation, that will be the key to the Conservatives’ planned revolution in the education system, with their ...read more
Politics may stifle primary reform
By Judith Judd | 9 November 2009
Ever since the Victorians set up elementary schools, primary education has been a battleground. Put crudely, the fight is between the "traditionalists" who back a ...read more
Gove's plans need spur of profit
By Anna Fazackerley | 3 October 2009
There are two new types of bore who seem always to end up sitting next to me at dinner parties. The first is the slightly ...read more