Recent announcements by the government makes one thing very clear. The third year of the National Tutoring Programme will look very different to the first and second. But the real question is how different should tutoring in schools look like after the National Tutoring Programme (NTP)? Our latest research sets out to answer this question….

Today I’m moving on from the Centre for Education and Youth. Reassured by all the research I’ve done over the years on how people formulate and pursue their occupational aspirations, and how it’s normal for our plans for the future to sometimes be loosely defined or unclear, I’m embracing the fact that I don’t currently…

It’s Wednesday morning, 9 am. No students are in yet. Staff wait around, prepping the classroom and sorting through materials. At 9:45, two or three pupils trickle in and the lesson starts. Outside in the corridor, there’s shouting and banging. The radio goes off: someone outside needs support. We offer the pupils in the room…

Yesterday the Education Select Committee published its report on the government’s educational catch-up programme. Whilst acknowledging that there has been £5bn of investment, the report is clear that current plans do not go far enough. The report comes hot on the heels of press coverage about unprecedented levels of pupil absence and a debate in…

Part one of this blog responded to Sam Freedman’s recent paper Institute for Government paper on the future of academies.  Part two digs into his solutions, proposes further research, and suggests some early ideas.  Big MATs or small? Sam proposes that the DfE should ‘set a strong expectation that all schools will join a MAT…