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Lessons from Sway: What can DJ Sway teach us about 'levelling up' pupil aspirations -
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director When I was a student, I wrote an essay in aesthetics (don’t ask- it’s not on the Ebacc) about how metaphors and similes rely on shared meanings.  In DJ Sway’s hit single ‘Level Up’ he says ‘One moment your whole world re-arranges, you feeling like you graduated Oxford or Cambridge,’ and as it happens, Sway’s lyrics have quite a lot of...
Today's Education Select Committee on Governing Body Reform -
There were two key issues that kept recurring in today's discussion of governing bodies: issues of training a governing body to be effective and the responsibilities that governing bodies have for driving school improvement. With that in mind, I've put today's tweets into these key areas and added a commentary on what LKMco's research, 'What Makes a Good School Governor...
Policy Exchange's report 'Quality Childcare: Improving early years childcare -
Here are Anna's tweets from earlier summarising the key points and recommendations from the Policy Exchange report: Quality Childcare: Improving early years childcare'. She has focused particularly on provision for disadvantaged children. [
What I think the Telegraph meant to say about A-Levels and University -
By Loic Menzies - LKMco Director The Telegraph tells us today that: “hundreds of secondary schools did not produce a single pupil with high enough grades in tough academic subjects to win a place at elite universities.” I suspect this is nonsense. Here’s what I think they meant: Top universities have long produced lists of...

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