It is a puzzling aspect of modern politics that the more persistently a minister is entreated to change their mind on an issue, the greater the crowing if he or she does indeed perform an about face.

Many of the new education policies seem to focus on the short-term rather than long-term. Of course a rational person wouldn't want to defend Gove, but he's right about one thing. Change is needed.

An influential Tory MP has launched a stinging attack on Michael Gove as he called on him to slow down the pace of his school reforms. Graham Stuar...

As a teenager I learned pretty swiftly that exam boards didn't care if you could write a novel on photosynthesis or recite the periodic table backwards while gargling marmite - if you didn't bone up on past papers or use 'key words', your knowledge was useless.

Not an easy afternoon for Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg, who had to stand up and respond to Michael Gove's heavily-trailed announcement tha...

It is right that schools are competitive environments because a school is a microcosm of real society. A debating tournament is not won by the fastest or the strongest or the man who grafts.

The English baccalaureate is having positive effects on many subjects chosen at GCSE and A-Level but increasingly so it seems, having devastating effe...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Secondary school pupils are flocking back to core academic subjects most valued by universities and employers, according to new r...

PRESS ASSOCiATION -- Nearly one in four GCSE entries could be awarded at least an A grade in what is expected to be another record year of results, it...