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.
Watch out for some educational 'wizz-bangs' this week in Brighton as the annual Conference of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) debates First World...
At the annual conference of the British Chamber of Commerce, education secretary for England, Michael Gove, announced, in somewhat messianic terms, his latest “mission”....
From 2016, four-year olds will face assessment screening when they begin school. This baseline ‘testing’ will allow pupil progress to be measured across subsequent...
Ofsted is back in the news. The organisation of school inspections is to be overhauled.
Schools that are judged to be ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ (currently...
"The Times Educational Supplement" reports that the Government is seriously considering whether courses in "mindfulness" should be introduced to help improve pupil well-being into...
Yesterday, the minister concerned, Liz Truss, announced that, "There is a growing political consensus around the importance of maths education...". That such a statement...
Education minister, Liz Truss, has recently flown off to Shanghai in search of a mathematical 'philosopher's stone'. She wants to discover how Chinese pupils score...
The Chief Inspector for Schools is concerned that inspectors are marking down traditional methods of teaching. According to “The Sunday Times” (16.2.2014), he has...
