A quiet news day, I take it. The PM is still in place, we are nowhere nearer the 54 letters, and Russia still hasn't invaded Ukraine. On such days, PB usually reverts to either a) Brexit, or b) … (View Post)

Not the DfE. Even worse. (View Post)

That was the original tripartite plan, but the technical schools never really took off apart from in a few areas - e.g. Leicestershire, if I remember correctly, had a proper tripartite system. (View Post)

Agree. But that fixation on grammar schools is not widely spread beyond a few on PB. As I've asked before, why is it that no Tory government, going back to Thatcher, has seriously tried to expan… (View Post)

Not grammar schools again, please. The only place I ever come across nostalgia for grammar schools is on PB. They are the past, not the future. Even the Tory Party has shut up about them (apart from … (View Post)