Comment  Governments generally now recognize that it is the national labour force and the knowledge and skills it possesses that determines the countries’ economic and social progress.  They recognise too that the first pillar that supports most education and training » Read More

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  Comment  Three new reports from the Quality Assurance Agency register concerns over the consistency, fairness and quality assurance of HE institutions and their degree awarding processes.   It notes continuing difficulties over awarding degrees. This is against the ba » Read More

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  Comment   Ed Balls announcement that failing schools are again in the last chance saloon had a familiar ring to it. The National Challenge for schools lays down that  schools at which less than 30 per cent of pupils achieve less than five A* to C grade GCSEs, » Read More

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  Comment   Studio Schools are a new initiative that has been developed to better prepare young people for the world of work.  The Government sees studio schools as part of the drive to personalise services and the  DCSF, through the Office of the Schools Commissioner » Read More

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  Comment  ED Balls has made it clear that  schools at which less than 30 per cent of pupils achieve less than five A* to C grade GCSEs, including English and maths, will be given three years to improve or they will be closed, merged with other schools or turned into an indepen » Read More

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  Comment   It is not the purpose of the diploma to make young people job-ready intoned a QCA spokesman to the TES recently , sowing further confusion in an already turbulent arena.  What are they for then?  If you have three QCA officials in one room they will give yo » Read More

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    Comment   A new report Level playing field? The implications of school funding commissioned by CfBT Education Trust suggests that that of the three criteria often used to determine whether genuine ‘school choice’ exists in a system  -pupil-led funding, » Read More

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EDUCATION POLICY IS NOT WORKING Comment    A group of Leading Academics claimed earlier this month that government policy is no longer the solution to the difficulties we face in education but our greatest problem.   They have “be » Read More

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Comment  Manchester University Academics in their recent report Equity in Education:  Responding to Context (Mel Ainscow, Alan Dyson, Sue Goldrick, Kirstin Kerr and Susie Miles) argue that there is currently more potential than ever before to achieve greater equity withi » Read More

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Time for Workforce Reforms?  Comment  Policy Exchange, which is dubbed Cameron’s favourite think tank, have delivered a  series of education reports looking at reform of the teaching profession, examples  of good practice from abroad and liberalisati » Read More

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