A levels Articles

Students getting their A-level results today would have spent the majority of their education under a Labour government, many starting their formative nursery years at the same time as the first secondary schools were becoming academies. With a record number of...

'Directors of school standards - I mean, is that it? Is that all Labour can offer on education?' Not my words but those of an experienced and exasperated headteacher at a secondary school in Hemel Hempstead, where I stood as Labour’s parliamentary candidate. I was...

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...

I’m not against reform in education – whether of qualifications or school governance.  After all, I did plenty myself in my two stints as an education minister.  However, I think reform should be based on evidence and preparing for the future rather than on dogma and...