I must congratulate the Rt Rev Patrick O’Donoghue, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lancaster, for providing members of the House of Commons’ Children, Schools and Families Select Committee with one of the finest arguments for secular education, I’ve seen in a very, very long time.
The Rt Rev Patrick O’Donoghue, Bishop of Lancaster, told MPs that [...]

A few months back, a blogging physics teacher by the (online) name of Wellington Grey caused a bit of stir by publishing an open letter to the DfES and AQA asking, actually begging, them to give him his subject back.
I am a physics teacher. Or, at least I used to be. My subject is still [...]

In which a report in the Independent provides yet more evidence of systematic stupidity and rampant bansturbation amongst the managerialist classes…
Teachers angry over reinstated pupils as exclusions increase
There has been a sharp rise in the number of pupils excluded from secondary schools, taking the annual total to more than a third of a million.
But teachers’ [...]

On first sight I honestly thought that this was a pisstake.
No really. I looked at it, read it through carefully and thought – ‘You have got to be shitting me’.
But no, what follows is a real press release from Partnerships for Schools.
25 April 2007
New toilet designs to help combat bullying in BSF schools
BSF is apparently [...]

Paul Burgin has re-published a few thoughts of his on the subject of faith schools, which originally appeared on Labour Home and which merit a response…
With faith schools once again being the hot potato issue, I felt it was time do do a reflective piece on this!
First of all I ought to declare an interest! [...]

Oh dear, it looks very much as if the Church of England has got itself into a bit of snit over the government’s efforts to promote greater integration in Britain’s Muslim communties according to the Sunday Telegraph…
The Church of England has launched an astonishing attack on the Government’s drive to turn Britain into a multi-faith [...]