*A level Results: 80% A*/A & 96% A*/B* NCS was established to offer pupils from the second most deprived borough in London opportunities comparable to those at the country’s leading independent and grammar schools. Today, NCS stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the most

The days go by since Trump met Putin in Alaska and Europe’s Miserable Seven headed to the White House to flatter Trump and act as Zelensky’s bodyguards. Can anybody tell me what progress to peace has been made? Putin still waging war in pursuit of his unprovoked/illegal invasion.

Measuring performance is the only way to reliably assess knowledge and learning

We keep searching for ‘evidence’ in all the wrong places, when the truth is right in front of us. But too often, allegiance to ideology outweighs our commitment to outcomes. Some would rather let children fail than confront the possibility they might be wrong. And what’s most

This is in my view a major problem in England too - done with the best of intentions but too often harming rather than promoting children’s aspirations and agency

The real reason why retweeting was invented.

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Curriculum for Excellence.

I get that we have a combative and adversarial political system, but this is a silly thing to say. The amount of energy and time the Conservatives put into education (often very successfully) shows that they *really did* care.

Annual reminder to those planning INSET: What you do on the day is obviously important. But what you do the day after, and the day after that and so on, is probably more important. What are your plans for sustaining change? How will you know if change has happened? What will you

If I could live my life again, I’d seek out this kind of education, and save myself a lifetime of playing catch-up.

First edition of new Education NI quarterly research publication … featuring Tim Oates, Paul A. Kirschner Daniel Muijs Dr Geraldine Magennis-Clarke among others …

If this is true, it’s a terrible step. Memorising things like times tables is essential to fluent and rapid recall for higher order maths thinking. Only in education would such terrible decisions be regarded as sound policy.

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This is correct. And if Govt moves fast, this ID can slot into private sector tools - like the emerging REC Press Office worker ID - to speed people into work. Digital credentials, held by citizens and shared when they want, is a world from the ID card debates of the past.

Congratulations to Tom Bennett OBE on his appointment as behaviour ambassador. A great appointment by the Department for Education which means he can continue his excellent work.

A general rule of the bond market is that you really don't want people to be talking about it.

Perhaps the most important book on education published this year … by Nick Gibb and Robert Peal … lessons not just for England but for education systems across the world …

Michael Gove: Nick Gibb’s achievement is there are hundreds of thousands of children who have better and brighter futures. @policy_exchange