Just before the House’s recess I received an answer to a Written Question that had been languishing unanswered for quite some time. In the answer, Lord Hill of Oareford, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, apologised on behalf of Department of Education officials for providing incorrect information on the school visits of the Secretary of…
This last week I have spent away from the Lords in the USA, first at a global education conference at Stanford University and then in Tennessee seeing how education innovation is rolling out on the ground. It was an inspiring week that reinforced my view that English education is in real danger of being left…
Over the weekend we have had the steady drip of stories spun out of the Department for Education on the outcome of Michael Gove’s curriculum review. Sadly the Secretary of State is no longer listening to his instincts not to dictate from Whitehall, instead he is dictating times tables, compulsory languages and poetry recitals. This…
