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Category: Education Policy

  • Policies to Combat Racism in Schools

    Education policy to combat racism has gone from ignorance, through assimilation, integration, multiculturalism to aggressive majoritarianism in 2022.

  • Lowering the student loan repayment salary threshold….

    The government is proposing to reduce the salary threshold at which students start to repay their tuition and maintenance loans. Presently, graduates only start repaying their loans when the start earning £27 000 a year, but this could be cut to £23 000. Students pay back 9% of their salary above the threshold – so…

  • Covid Catch-Up Policies: Are they Sufficient?

    Most students in England and Wales missed around 20 weeks of regular in-school contact time due to lock down measures in 2020 and 2021. The government has introduced a number of policies to try and help students catch up with lost learning, funded with £1.4 billion. The main official government document outlines several different initiatives…

  • The 2011 Wolfe Report on Vocational Education

    The 2011 Review of Vocational Education, also known as the 2011 Wolf Report noted a number of strengths and limitations of Vocational Education in England and Wales in 2011, before going on to make almost 30 recommendations. This is an important report because it set the scene for a possible major (if very gradual) restructuring…

  • Vocational Education in Britain Today

    Vocational eduacation in Britain today is complex – involving a range or qualifications from GCSEs, BTECs, City and Guids, T levels and higher degree level qualifications and a range of providers – from schools to apprenticeships provided mainly by employers

  • Inside the school’s cuts crisis

    This 2019 Panorama documentary is a case study in the effects of education funding cuts on one primary school in a deprived area of the U.K. in 2019. Summary         This 30 minute documentary follows one primary school in a deprived area exploring the impact of cuts to education funding since 2010, and investigating the…

  • The consequences of cutting bursaries for student nurses…

    Cutting free tuition and bursaries for student nurses seems to be a good candidate for the one of the worst social policy decisions of the decade… The NHS is currently critically short of nurses, with 42 000 posts in England unfilled. This seems to be due to a decision by the Tory party in 2015…

  • The academy trusts failing their schools

    The academy trusts failing their schools

    The schools census information for October 2018 showed that more pupils now study in academies than in maintained LEA schools (50.1% to 49.9%). Academies were first introduced under New Labour and are something the Conservatives expanded massively in the last decade. Most of these schools are part of a ‘multi academy trust’, and once a school…

  • New research finds Grammar Schools provide equality of opportunity, and they’re good for social mobility

    New research finds Grammar Schools provide equality of opportunity, and they’re good for social mobility

    Supporting evidence for the view that grammar schools are good for equality of educational opportunity and social mobility, but the methods are a bit suspect!

  • Compensatory Education

    Compensatory Education aims to tackle cultural deprivation by providing extra funds and resources – examples include Operation Head Start, Education Action Zones and Sure Start