Politics

George Osborne: north-south divide in schools needs urgent attention

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Former chancellor’s Northern Powerhouse Partnership calls on ministers to take action to close England’s education gap Ministers need to pay “urgent attention” to the growing north-south divide in England’s schools, George Osborne has said, as he warned of an alarming brain drain of graduates from the north. In the first report by the Northern Powerhouse […]

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Katie Hopkins said I was brainwashing children. But they need to learn about protest | Jackie Teale

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I took a banner made by my students to a protest against the UK’s links with Trump because history tells them that the struggle for rights is never over As a teacher, I regularly have to remind students of the perils of using social media, but earlier this week it was me who came under

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Dear Justine Greening, whatever happened to ‘eradicating illiteracy’? | Michael Rosen

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In 2011 the schools minister trumpeted the benefits of phonics teaching. But a quarter of seven-year-olds’ literacy skills still haven’t made the cut Back in 2005, the BBC reported David Cameron (you’ll remember him), then shadow education secretary, saying: “The biggest problem facing education today is the fact that one in five 11-year-olds leaves primary

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‘We’re not hippies, we’re punks.’ School that has projects, not subjects, on the timetable

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Finland’s answer to a slip in standards is to put more ‘joy’ into the curriculum. We visit a school in Yorkshire that aims to show the UK could do the same ‘New core curriculum for basic education emphasises the joy of learning,” reads a recent headline on a government education website. This new, more joyful

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Nursery schools: ‘What society gives children less chance than their parents?’

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Few doubt the value of nursery schools, yet many could close as early as July thanks to government plans for free childcare Kate Daenke is sitting in the headteacher’s room at Homerton early years centre in Cambridge, recalling her childhood years at the nursery school. She remembers her headteacher and many hours spent playing in

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My child blossomed at a state nursery – we can't let these places close

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With 57% of maintained nursery schools rated ‘outstanding’, it seems madness for them to face cuts. If anything, their remit ought to be extended The prospect of state-maintained nurseries closing en masse sounds the lowest note of the austerity politics. Maintained nurseries have enjoyed a level of Ofsted success that the rest of the education

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Bigger classes and fewer teachers for 1,500 London schools

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Government formula will cut budgets at 70% of capital’s schools already enduring funding freeze, London Councils says More than 1,500 schools in London will move to larger class sizes and fewer teachers under the government’s proposed national funding formula, according to forecasts by boroughs in the capital that predict they will suffer cuts of £360m

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