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How can whole borough, Knowsley, be allowed to have no schools teaching A-levels? Another triumph for the govt's 'academies for all'policy

Birmingham MAT celebrated by Cameron as among best in Britain has collapsed.Five schools now left with mounting debts and uncertain future

Interesting that history was one of only 2 top ten A level subjects where the proportion of A grades went down this year, from 18% to 17.6%.

Sorry, previous tweet should have read AS level.

A level history results broadly similar to the previous 2 yrs. A*-B rose from 31.4% to 31.9% but A*s fell from 6.1% last year and 5.4% .

@mrskmozza Yes, Kate, national

24% fewer students took AS history last year, placing it 4th in list of subjects 'losing' most students but geography numbers rising. Ideas?

@mrskmozza The issue I guess is why history declining at AS and Geog rising THIS YEAR. Surely linear wd affect both equally? Any thoughts?

@mrskmozza Thanks so much for solving this one for me. Shd we expect to see gg decline next year do you think? and hist continue to decline?

On ave. 4 more pupils per sch entered GCSE history in 2016 , leading to fall in A* and A from 28.8 to 26.5% and A*-C from 69.1 to 66%. EBacc

OFQUAL says increase in low ability (sic) sitting GCSE hist. explains 3% fall in A*-C. But % getting G or U only increased from 4.9 to 5.9

Terry Haydn's BERA paper claims not enough schools are teaching about the latter stages and decline of empire, inc. the Suez crisis of 1956

Rebrokered academies now to be classed as “new schools” and entitled to a three-year grace period from Ofsted inspectors. I wonder why!

Great new website offering 30 short, flexible, genuinely enquiry-based videos on popular KS3 /4 topics launch today historybombs.com/#aboutus.

New video from OFSTED history specialist, Phil Smith, on what inspectors need to find out in history lessons ow.ly/77rr304BqQJ

A third of teachers quit within 5 years of qualifying according to new figures: yes, but the figs. haven’t changed much for last 15 years.

History has remembered kings/warriors because they destroyed. Art has remember'd the people 'cause they created. Wm Morris. AL Art history?

New National Museum of African American History and Culture:12 exhibitions starts Africa in 1400, from slavery, to emancipation, to now.

Ofsted has abandoned its policy of publishing good practice to dispel myth that it insists on “prescribed methods of teaching and learning".