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Jim Knight
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‘Children can change the world - we just need to listen’
Children matter – just look at the general election: we ignore young people at our peril, writes former schools minister Jim Knight
16 June 2017
Tony Blair’s legacy: ‘There were more school staff, better paid, better led and trusted more’
I remain proud of Tony Blair’s legacy in education, maintains former schools minister Jim Knight, writing ahead of the 20th anniversary of Labour’s landslide election victory. ‘Waste-paper bins could be used for rubbish rather than collecting leaks’
27 April 2017
‘Unless the new grammar schools offer T levels - and they won’t - these qualifications are very likely to fail’
T levels risk being another expensive failure like diplomas – especially if schools continue to be hamstrung by the EBacc, writes former schools minister Jim Knight
10 March 2017
‘The day I visited an isolation room - and realised that the strict behaviour strategy was working’
I believe in empowering children and noisy group work, but none of it will be effective unless the pupils have the scaffolding of an effective behaviour strategy, writes a former Labour schools minister
7 February 2017
Angela’s alchemy shows every pupil ‘You are a genius’
Angela Maiers, the US-based educator and founder of the Choose2matter movement, impresses Lord Jim Knight with her lessons in self-belief at UK schools, ahead of her appearance at the Bett ed-tech show
25 January 2017
‘Banning technology from schools because of toxic elements in our culture will not make the problem disappear’
More positive use of phones in school for learning may encourage more positive use of mobiles generally, says a former schools minister
19 October 2016