The pupil premium policy, designed to help the most disadvantaged schoolchildren, is not identifying those who need it the most and is not being spent in the most “appropriate” way by...
Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
Creating a system of fair school admissions is never easy. But it is important that opportunities to attend more successful schools aren’t limited to those with the deepest pockets
‘Freedom’ from council control does not mean an abdication of responsibility. Academies and free schools need to improve their approaches to both governance and financial probity
The schools spending ringfence should be removed, to ease up the pressure on other departments. And there's evidence that educational standards need not suffer
The Welsh government appears complacent as school performance continues to deteriorate. Ministers need to think radically and should start by introducing some competition into the education system
