Shameful: Up to 100,000 pupils fall foul of DfE's Pupil Premium rule change 20 June 2021 The extent to which the government has “short-changed” schools has finally been revealed after official figures showed that up to 100,000 FSM children will not attract Pupil Premium funding this year.
Education Recovery Plan: Embarrassment at Eat Out to Help Out comparison 9 June 2021 Last year’s ill-fated month-long Eat Out to Help Out scheme cost about the same as the government’s Education Recovery Plan for the next academic year.
Crisis management for school leaders 7 January 2021 When it comes to handling crises, Ben Solly has certainly crammed more than his fair share into his seven years of headship. Here – at a time when all school leaders are in crisis management mode ...
Social justice and schools: Assessment 24 November 2020 In a seven-part series, teacher and school leader Dave Anderson considers how schools can be a key driver for social justice and how we can make our education system more equitable. In part six, he ...
The fault line in our society... 8 May 2021 The attainment gap between rich and poor has become a fault line in our society and there are clear links to poverty and disadvantage – yet this does not appear to be on the to-do list of the current ...
Education recovery: Let’s stop the eye-catching policy wheezes 16 March 2021 Education recovery must not be put at risk by rushed, unproven solutions before we have understood the problem we are trying to solve, says Geoff Barton
The SecEd Podcast: Covid-19 & Schools 16 December 2020 This episode of The SecEd Podcast looks at Covid-19, including how schools have coped this term, our biggest successes, biggest challenges, lessons learned, and our planning for the spring and summer ...
16 December 2020