Chris McGovern is the Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education. A retired head teacher with 35 years’ teaching experience, Chris is a former advisor to the Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street under two Prime Ministers.
WHEN revolutions exploded across Europe in early 1848, Metternich, the conservative foreign minister of Austria, is reputed to have said: ‘We had planned for...
FROM splitting the atom to unravelling the DNA molecule, British universities have long been world beating. A single college at Cambridge University, Trinity, has...
OFSTED reports that the Covid-19 lockdown of schools and nurseries caused children to regress. Some potty-trained infants, for example, have reverted to nappies and...
SAMANTHA Price, headteacher of Benenden School for girls, has been sitting on the naughty step. Some senior pupils at the alma mater of Princess Anne took...
THE exam system is a mess, for all the Government would like us to think otherwise.
Back in 2019, we had fully-taught, full-syllabus, public examinations....
SOME of the country’s leading educators have declared war on the GCSE examination.
The alliance, called Rethinking Assessment, have written an open letter to the Sunday...
HOUSESTEADS Roman Fort and its adjoining section of Hadrian’s Wall are missing from the National Trust’s list of its properties linked to colonialism and...
‘HUMANKIND cannot bear very much reality.’ T S Eliot’s words are true, too, of educational standards. This summer’s public examination debacle, in particular, should...
