Blogs

‘Wanted: new schools, with purpose’ - with Nick Timothy, (then) Director of the New Schools Network

The correlation between family income and educational achievement is well established worldwide. This correlation is often interpreted in causal terms, leading to calls for income redistribution and other social policy interventions that could improve pupil outcomes.

‘OECD PISA: Is it fit for purpose? (Do we even know what it’s for?)’

In the past decades, politicians worldwide have embarked on reforms to increase market and government accountability in state-funded education sectors. The idea behind has been to increase incentives to improve pupil performance.