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...not gap-filling, cramming, or working for seven hours-per-day, writes Kevin Stannard

Despite the profound lack of evidence, the ‘futurists’ double-down and insist that teachers should prepare students to be ‘drone-traffic optimisers’. We must resist such nonsense and keep doing what schools do best

A brainy guide to the science behind teenagers’ behaviour

Those who are quick to dismiss our young people as snowflakes are the ones who continue to stack the odds against them, writes Dr Kevin Stannard

The current university application system favours those in well-resourced schools – too often, the bright students in struggling schools are burdened by pessimistic predicted grades, says Dr Kevin Stannard

In 1918, a physiologist said “examinations should be part and parcel of education, and not its soulless despot” – and yet, a hundred years later, we’re still teaching to the test, writes Kevin Stannard