Dear Nicky Morgan
May I add my voice to the many congratulating you on your promotion to Education Minister.
I would like to draw your attention to an unfortunate, and probably unintended, consequence of the disapplication of National Curriculum Levels by your predecessor.
The NC Levels are a national system of criterion referencing that gives English education a significant strategic advantage. The principles are Continue reading
BSF: Glass domes and Spandex suits
Remember Building Schools of the Future? It was a flagship programme by the then Labour government to put old wine into new flasks whilst carefully avoiding doing anything that might actually improve the quality of teaching and learning in English schools. I thought it was a gross misappropriation of resources, and said so exactly 10 years ago today.
About that, I was absolutely right. It turned out that Continue reading
This report in the Sunday Times (paywalled) is cheering indeed. Matthew Hancock is promoting the idea that computers can handle the content side of education whilst teachers do the bit only they can do – mentoring, coaching and motivating. Many readers of this blog have been Continue reading
