schools Articles

After an education-free election, schools are back. Nicky Morgan wants to do more about ‘coasting’ schools, all the Labour leadership contenders are talking about aspiration, and Liz Kendall has offered a more nuanced approach to free schools. The attention is...

So the free schools charade continues. Forget about the ‘chaos’ at the Al-Madinah free school, where schools inspectorate Ofsted had to create a new ‘dysfunctional’ category just to score it within its framework. Disregard the debacle of the IES Breckland school in...

As I sit here, trawling through our curriculum to check if we are ticking all of the ‘British values’ boxes, it has never been clearer to me that Ofsted needs reform. Teachers, school leaders and Tristram Hunt all agree, but saying things need reform and actually...

It is the poor – those for whom Labour claims to fight the hardest – who are the greatest victims of low-quality public services Public service reform has long been derided by some on the left as unnecessary, technocratic and harmful to public sector workers. Worse...