Website Archive - Mar 2009
Cruel hoax in student admissions?
Will this summer's changes to university admissions really allow students to upgrade their offers? It looks unlikely.
10 Mar 2009 BBC News Online
School lessons from Singapore
What can we learn from one of the world's most successful school systems?
10 Mar 2009 The Guardian
Record sighting of Education Secretaries
Last night I saw four former Secretaries of State for Education in one room -- is that a re...
03 Mar 2009
Apologies - server down
Apologies to anyone who had trouble getting on to this website recently - I am afraid the s...
03 Mar 2009
Follow Mike on Twitter
You can now get brief updates on what I am up to at Twitter:
The government's latest idea is that high-flier recruits can be trained to become teachers... 10 Mar 2009Become a teacher in just 6 months
Ed Balls on school report cards
Ed Balls say school report cards must be 'simple and easy'
At th...
13 Mar 2009
Click here to see world's prettiest school
This floating school is in Halong Bay, Vietnam. It is for the fishing community that lives on flo...
15 Mar 2009
Heads reject 'simple' school report cards
It is now quite clear that leaders of secondary schools and colleges are very wary about th...
16 Mar 2009
University fees - no rise before 2013
So a majority of vice-chancellors (anonymously at least) want tuition fees to rise t...
17 Mar 2009
Pupil inspection vindicated
A short while ago I wrote my Guardian column about Caversham Primary school, near Reading w...
17 Mar 2009
Concerns about pupil finger-printing
The leading human rights campaigner, Sami Chakrabarti, the Director of Liberty, has warned&...
27 Mar 2009
Making Good Progress TV programme
My latest programme in the 'Need To Know' series for Teachers TV is broadcast tonight (Tuesday 31...
31 Mar 2009
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