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Joe Nutt
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‘We have spent decades pursuing social mobility at the expense of creating a highly educated society’
The well-trodden mush of political blather has rendered the DfE’s ‘mission statement’ unrecognisable and undeliverable, writes one educational consultant
14 December 2016
‘If contemporary poets want ordinary folk to value what they do, then they and their fans need to climb down a peg or two’
Metrophobes should try some dead poets. They’re definitely better society, says Joe Nutt
25 November 2016
‘If you’re consigning history of art to the curriculum dustbin, the barbarians have already taken over’
We may as well put English literature next on the list of subjects to cull, warns one educational consultant
5 November 2016
‘If teachers are to sort the pearls from the swine in terms of research, they need help from professionals’
When it comes to educational research, it’s not just a question of getting to grips with the numbers, the language is often just as slippery, writes one educational consultant
24 October 2016
‘How many schools have seized the opportunity to take full control of the assessment process?’
It would be much healthier for staff and children if schools had the confidence to say ‘this is how we do it here’, argues one educational consultant
8 October 2016
‘In the minds of the general public, schools now fulfil every imaginable role, from nanny to jobcentre’
As the government moves towards the creation of new grammar schools, let’s stop briefly to ask: what are schools actually for?
25 September 2016