That's precisely my point - we have a huge bolus of students who did "OK" at GCSE but have no particular aptitude for or delight in the maths teaching we offer them. Two more years of … (View Post)

The Tories aren't helping themselves though. People might at least cock an ear if they hear something that doesn't sound half baked. On extending Maths education to 18, it is obvious that i… (View Post)

I doubt they even looked at the amount of the bill. It's hard to get FoH that can cope with an anomaly. (View Post)

One significant thing that Primary does now and didn't then is start to give the apparatus for critical evaluation of your own work and an introduction to the notion that answers to most real qu… (View Post)

Excellent header, BTW. One thing in particular I'd highlight is the dreadful state of lifelong learning. Most people would benefit from the normalisation of post-21 education and (incidentally) … (View Post)