Digging around in the undergrowth of schools reform in England Warwick Mansell's news and analysis site
Entirely academy system will take 20 years to achieve, on current conversion trends
Number of pupils per teacher in English secondary schools has risen nearly 10 per cent since 2011
DfE’s “swift” school intervention drive failing on own terms?
Sir Dan Moynihan’s pay package over time
All-academy secondary sector to take another eight years, on current trends
100 new free schools a year: achievable or not?
“It’s as if none of the writings about children’s understanding in history published in the past half century had ever been written”
Ofsted is delivering…but what?
If we really want to reduce teacher workload, first we need to measure it properly
Ofsted: a learning organisation?
An uncomfortable truth about exclusions
What’s wrong with parent-promoted free schools?
Investigation: the philosophy behind the Oasis academy chain
Transcript from video setting out the ethos of Oasis Community Learning
Why is the private control of taxpayer-funded schools continuing, via the academies policy?
Conservative takeover of education’s public bodies continues with Birbalsingh announcement at Social Mobility Commission
Academies dominate list of schools benefiting from quick return inspections after being rated “inadequate” by Ofsted
Can an Ofsted verdict really be as robust as this inspection report implies?
Will Ofsted’s new inspection framework really lead schools to focus less on test and exam data?
Hoorah for Ofsted’s statement on accountability. And yet…
