No-one is surprised when a newly elected government decides to create new initiatives and new organisations to signify a change in direction and a break from the past.Skills England, a new agency within the Department for Education, was ...

The Curriculum and Assessment Review, which is being chaired by Professor Becky Francis, was commissioned by the Department for Education last summer and will not conclude its work until this autumn.Even so, the Review has attracted so m...

Those who work in and around the Higher Education, or HE sector, have been having a rough time if recent media headlines are anything to go by.Since the turn of the year, there has been what’s felt like a constant stream of stories about...

Seeing as the government is clearly short of spare cash, you would have thought the Department for Education investing in a new national programme to improve pupils’ outcomes would be well received.The Government recently announced over ...

Given the endless debates and disagreements about Ofsted, the school and college inspectorate in England, Ofsted’s proposed new framework for conducting inspections was never going to go unnoticed when it launched in early February to kick off ...