national curriculum Articles

I think everybody agrees that language learning is a good thing. But like many ‘good things’ it needs government backing to happen. Whilst ramping up the positive rhetoric on learning languages the Conservative government has wreaked havoc in the real world. First of...

When people criticise the reforms to state schools pioneered by the New Labour government there is often a refusal to acknowledge brute facts. The basic school leaving standard is just 5 GCSEs at A* to C including English and Maths. This is perhaps the least demanding...

Britain likes to think of itself as a global nation. It had the first global empire, and became the first global state. The UK’s economists and politicians were vital in setting up both the IMF and World Bank, and Britain has shared with the world many pioneers, from...