Press releases

Clearly, the best place for students is in school but there are many factors causing our current absence figures.

Educators are looking to politicians to match their policies to the scale of the problems.

The current curriculum is not fit for the challenges and realities of our times.

All the problems facing the educational system have deepened during the period in which Gibb has presided over schools.

Labour is recognising that little can be achieved without working with, and in partnership, with teachers.

This back-of-the-envelope plan shows a Government out of touch with the realities of the teacher recruitment and retention crisis

If the Government believes additional tutoring should be provided, then it must fund it appropriately. Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union on the DfE’s announcement about changes to the National Tutoring Programme.

The Prime Minister’s ambition will be thwarted, though, unless he faces up to the reality of the state of education in England.

We will support our members in developing a broad and inclusive curriculum so that all children can feel engaged and enthused with their learning.

The centrally controlled curriculum is creating an education with which students are finding it increasingly hard to engage.

Arts education should be a right for all students. But to many students, it is a right denied.