My 14 year-old niece’s school recently instructed her and her classmates to ensure the lengths of their skirts were in line with uniform regulations. This was premised on the need to avoid “compromising male staff and students” by “showing too much thigh” while “walking upstairs or even just sitting down”. A similarly worded email was …
Time to end complacency on teacher recruitment and retention: Today’s Education Select Committee report on recruitment and retention uses data from LKMco and Pearson’s “Why Teach?” study to highlight the key role workload plays in driving teachers from the profession. Lead author of the study and Director of the education think-tank LKMco, Loic Menzies welcomed …
We co-hosted Policy First’s September debate featuring Katherine Birbalsingh of Michaela Community School, Jonathan Clifton of the IPPR, Natasha Porter from Policy Exchange, Peter Henderson of the EEF and Jake Curtis of Jamie’s Farm. This is a storify of #Policy1st tweets from the evening. You can also find a blog of what I would have said if I’d …
In this ‘Challenges in Leadership’ debate organised by Teach First London, LKMco Director, Loic Menzies discusses the complex question of London schools’ success with Paul Bhatia (Wembley High Technology College), Nicola Graham (Harris Academy Chafford Hundred) and Ellen Greaves (IFS). The debate ranges far and wide including busting the ‘they used to be terrible’ myth, …
Oh 2010, how long ago you seem. Back then Edu Secretary, Michael Gove, was forever exclaiming the virtues of his ‘Free Schools’ policy. It would unleash innovation, usher in a parental ‘big society’, and end the many (arguably media-created) ‘woes’ of state schools. Gove was so convinced free schools were the answer to a ‘crisis’ …
