Michael Gove's fight to rescue children branded 'special needs' is another...
KATHY GYNGELL: Michael Gove could have chosen no riper target for genuine reform. Nothing could better reflect what is wrong with our educational establishment and system of schooling.
View ArticleMichael Gove is a brave and brilliant man, but handing head teachers the...
Instead of fighting OFSTED over the need for unannounced school inspections, Michael Gove has chosen to fight for the right of head teachers to set their staff's pay. Is this really the right battle?
View ArticleNow is the time to break the stranglehold of the teaching unions over...
KATHY GYNGELL: Michael Gove knows better than anyone the education crisis our country is in. He knows that the teaching unions behind it have to be faced down sooner or later.
View ArticleTeachers' pay needs to be in the hands of schools, not Ofsted
KATHY GYNGELL: The current pay system for teachers is rigid, complex and difficult to navigate, Michael Gove said a couple of weeks ago. It makes it difficult for schools to recruit and train high...
View ArticleBBC's Today programme is not a turn-on anymore ¿ in fact it is a complete...
KATHY GYNGELL: There is something rotten in the state of the BBC. Nowhere is this more evident than in their flagship current affairs programme, Radio 4’s Today.
View ArticleThe 'Ugly Sisters' of the teaching unions want to hold our children back
KATHY GYNGELL: NASUWT boss Chris Keates claims that teaching children to recite poetry or their times tables off by heart will 'shackle teachers' discretion’. What is she afraid of?
View ArticleFair is foul and foul is fair in the world of the teachers¿ unions¿ three...
KATHY GYNGELL: The three witches of the teaching unions - Chris Keates, Dr. Mary Bousted and Christine Blower, are on the war path for Michael Gove.
View ArticleKim Kardashian a better role model than the Duchess of Cambridge? You have...
KATHY GYNGELL: It beggars belief that a serious broadsheet commentator could argue that Kim Kardashian is a better role model for schoolgirls than the Duchess of Cambridge.
View ArticleWhy do we expect children to behave well when their parents behave so badly...
KATHY GYNGELL: The number of violent and persistently badly behaved children is on the rise. More pupils are being suspended from school for abuse or assault.
View ArticleMichael Gove must not let busybody backbenchers throw him off his stride
KATHY GYNGELL: Just about everyone with anything to do with education has been determined to muddy the waters of Michael Gove's reforms. Happily, one interested party remains on his side: the public.
View ArticleThe case for the 11 plus is overwhelming. But how long will it take the...
KATHY GYNGELL: It comes as no surprise that teenagers in England are half as likely as those in the average developed nation to reach higher levels in maths.
View ArticleIt is frankly irresponsible of Ministers to say students must not be put off...
KATHY GYNGELL: Politicians might think it OK to hang an amount of debt equivalent to a small mortgage over students heads while they study, in increasing numbers, young people don’t.
View ArticleEva Rausing death: Did we kill her through our toleration of her ghastly...
Billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, pictured with his wife a few years ago, may have lived with his wife Eva's dead body for up to four days before it was discovered by police it has been claimed
View ArticleOur schools need tough guys teaching teenage boys, not feminised men caring...
KATHY GYNGELL: Michael Gove wants male role models for boys and better discipline he says. But yesterday his civil servants knock back an application for a school staffed by former army officers.
View ArticleCan we trust state schools to spend the money or time allocated to...
KATHY GYNGELL: Competitive school sport should be compulsory says David Cameron. A lot of people agree with his post-Olympic glow sentiments. Who wouldn’t?
View ArticleSchools are still spoon-feeding their students. Today¿s 'A' Level results...
KATHY GYNGELL: Yes, for the first time in two decades, there has been a fall in the proportion of 'A' Level candidates awarded an A or A*. But to deduce from this that 'A' Levels have got tougher is...
View ArticleTeachers are complaining that GCSE English was marked too harshly. But if...
KATHY GYNGELL: After years of grade inflation and manipulation no resetting of the GSCE exam pass level can be fair. It will be tougher for those pupils who fall into the new regime - but what other...
View ArticleBut why pick on mothers who stay at home?
KATHY GYNGELL: David Cameron has diminished both the status of mothers who choose to raise their own children with his ill-judged and shambolic changes to child benefit payments.
View ArticleYes, minister, nurseries ARE bad for children. So why don't you do more for...
At last, after years of the liberal establishment insisting that nurseries are perfectly fine, a Government minister has dared to tell the truth about them. But will Elizabeth Truss's proposed...
View ArticleHow can Ann Furedi support terminating a baby because she's a girl?
Ann Furedi, the chief executive of BPAS, claims that it was perfectly lawful for women to end their pregnancies if they do not like the sex of their unborn child
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