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A House of Lords cross-party education committee adds its powerful voice to calls for change in schools, having concluded that the education system for 11–16-year-olds is “failing pupils”. Its Conservative chair says that change is “urgently needed”, with the current system too focused on… Continue Reading “Parliamentarians call for change”
According to official figures, more than one in five children in England are persistently absent from school, double the rate before the Covid pandemic. It is no surprise then that a newly published report on school attendance uses the term ‘crisis’, or that both… Continue Reading “School attendance”
The name said it all: Requires Improvement: Urgent change for 11–16 education. Published in December – and focus of Parliamentarians call for change, our penultimate blog of the year – it was a report from a House of Lords cross-party education committee which had… Continue Reading “Review of 2023”
This year, 2024, is almost certainly going to be an election year in the UK (though it could actually be as late as January 2025). Expect to hear detailed descriptions of ‘broken Britain’ – and not just from the government’s opponents, if the PM’s… Continue Reading “Rescuing our public services”
Most young people in Great Britain apparently believe that they will be worse off than their parents. If true, it ought to give pause for thought. We tend to take the idea of progress over time – that life is ‘better’ now than it… Continue Reading “Offering young people hope”
The UK government introduced a bill in parliament this week which, if it becomes law, will make England the first country in the world to ban smoking. The prime minister says he wants to “protect future generations across the UK from the harmful impacts… Continue Reading “A ban on smoking”