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‘Best get used to them: these new-look A-levels aren’t going anywhere’
Whatever you think of the reformed A levels, you can find some comfort in the fact that the government is unlikely to meddle again anytime soon, writes one teacher-turned-policy expert
16 August 2017
‘Labour’s education plans: a Blairite veneer, but a radical centre’
Labour’s roadmap towards a National Education Service needs more landmarks than its slightly ambiguous manifesto provides, writes a former teacher and policy writer
17 May 2017
Wider focus on ‘working class’ pupils is welcome
Theresa May’s recent speeches signal a willingness to move away from using free school meals as the definitive measure of a child’s economic circumstances
7 October 2016
‘Why teachers should demand the return of the gown - we should wear clothes that reflect our status’
One leading history teacher calls for school staff to start sporting academic dress. This is an edited version of a longer article in this week’s TES
31 December 2015