Ralph Berry Articles

The link between nutrition and learning in schools is no longer disputed. Indeed, we are now seeing real concern that the gains made with breakfast clubs and improvements in access to free school meals are being lost, as child poverty levels rise and real data comes...

Recent reports have reminded us that around one in four primary schools currently have no male teacher. It’s not a new problem but, until recently, the efforts to improve the entry of men into the profession were struggling, and a sense of fatalism seemed to have...

The manner in which Michael  Gove and his apparatchiks operate is clearly beginning to unravel – the attention paid to his pet free school programme is clearly distracting the machine of state from the twin problems of a looming buildings crisis and of a real risk of...

Tension between Whitehall and councils over where power in education sits is nothing new, but the degree of imposition and central decision we have now under the coalition is unprecedented and is beginning to embed fragmentation and conflict into what should otherwise...