The number of top grades awarded reached an all-time high this year as 44.3% of students achieved either an A* or A in their exams. The A-Level results from this year have commonly been described as ‘inflated’ due to the…
Boris Johnson has always sought to increase his power. The now Prime Minister who once said he wanted to be ‘world king’ now seeks to eradicate any legislation that constrains his authority. His actions provoke the need to write down…
On the 6th of January 2021, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson announced that all GCSE and A-level exams would be cancelled for the 2020/21 academic year. Announcing his plans to the House of Commons chamber, he stressed that the government would…
Gavin Williamson’s recent ‘landmark’ proposals to strengthen free speech certainly paint a dystopian picture. In a statement evocative of George Orwell’s ‘1984’, the education secretary earnestly claimed that UK Universities were failing to prevent the chilling effect on campuses of…
If you don’t trust the assessment of teachers across the country then why ask for their input in the first place? I stood ready to get on my soapbox about the government’s handling of A-level and BTEC results when I…
Despite issues like Brexit and knife crime being high priorities for the government at this moment in time, there’s also another issue that should be looked at by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. Although the education sector…