Month: January 2017

January 7, 2017 at 06:01PM The government’s plan to open new grammar schools is a key policy of Theresa May’s new “shared society”, the education secretary has said.Justine Greening told the Andrew Marr show this morning that...

January 7, 2017 at 01:00PM The Department for Education is recruiting a team of “behavioural insights” experts to aid ministers in their policymaking decisions.The move is aimed at changing the “culture” of the department with...

January 7, 2017 at 01:00PM The government has rejected a bid to open a Jewish free school in London after criticising its plans to dedicate 20 per cent of learning time to faith-based education.The application from Barkai...

January 7, 2017 at 11:08AMWriting in 1985, Neil Postman made the interesting observation that of the first fifteen U.S. presidents, many of them could walk down the street without being physically recognised yet they would be...