Are Ofsted inspections helpful for choosing secondary schools?
Ofsted argue that inspections support school choice. But can this be true if some schools haven't been inspected for several years?
Will £30k starting salaries make teaching competitive with other graduate jobs?
Our analysis suggests that they will
Provisional KS4 data 2017: Comparing strong and standard GCSE pass rates
The 2017 GCSE English and maths papers were graded on the new nine-point scale (9-1) rather than the old eight-point scale (A*-G). The content and structure of the English and maths GCSEs have also been reformed at the same time. The rest of the GCSEs will follow suit over the next few years. The new [...]
Departmental heads in the sand: Why your department is performing worse than you think
How’s your driving? Below average, pretty normal, or better than most? Research suggests that the majority of our readers have just answered ‘better than most’. They are surely wrong. Only half of drivers can be better than the median. The other half are, by definition, below it. This is an example of what psychologists call [...]