It wasn’t Michelangelo who said that – although it might have been for he was always at pains to select the particular block of stone ... Read on

A Review of Michael Gove’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference on October 7th 2009 In late August a copy of the Briefing Paper on ... Read on

Going on with your own education Whether Ed Balls at the Labour Party Conference, calling for greater parental support to improve the behaviour of young ... Read on

Emotional Intelligence It’s a month now since the media sought photographs of teenagers jumping for joy as they flourished their  A-Level and GCSE results.  Featuring ... Read on

Knowledge transfer It was in the early 1980s that several business people and educationalists came together to consider whether there was a role they could ... Read on

The solution to England’s education problem The first of the Party Conferences (the Liberal Democrats) is now over, and soon it will be the turn ... Read on

A matter of democracy Chris Woodhead, writing in The Sunday Times about examination results, said “children are not equal.  Physically they come in all shapes ... Read on

GCSE and all that Today’s talk is all about GCSE results.  What do they really mean, and are our children being properly prepared for the ... Read on

Overschooled but Undereducated The tranquillity of the summer holidays is soon to be broken as the media indulges in its annual analysis (orgy?) of examination ... Read on

Transforming Public Discourse For all those reading the Briefing Paper for Parliamentarians, or the Book Overschooled but Undereducated, it may be helpful to explain The ... Read on