Gerard Manley Hopkins has been excluded from the OCR GCSE English Literature list. Happily, Hopkins wrote brilliantly about nature and so is a good candidate to be part of the new natural history GCSE syllabus. One possible choice would seem...
It's quite something for a secretary of state for education to accuse an exam board of cultural vandalism, but that happened yesterday when Nadhim Zahawi commented on OCR's decision to update its poetry anthology by dropping its only examples of poems by...
Another astonishing story about DfE civil servants and my second of the week. A Schools Bill (about the work of academies) is currently meandering its way through the parliamentary process. Conservative peers have tabled a motion to delete the first...