How big policy areas like crime, education, transport and energy have changed.
- Associate Pro Vice Chancellor for Student Inclusion and Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of East Anglia
Starmer’s vision for a changed education sector attempts to use the same measures to address two separate problems.
The questions replacing the personal statement provide structure and should help students focus on what is important.
While some improvements were made by some children and schools, the overall impact of the scheme has been small.
Teachers may feel that the government could have gone further.
A better measure of success could be to judge the impact a university has to change the course of a student’s life.
Teachers find their workloads difficult to manage – and the government is struggling to recruit people to the sector.
The pandemic has has a serious impact on school pupils – but a record number have applied to university.
The reshuffled Department for Education is already facing controversy.
It’s time for the UK government to rethink its strategy and focus on mental health.
The government’s proposals may affect the most disadvantaged students.
The way students have been marked has changed, but that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve their grades.
A focus on ‘catching up’ implies a deficit on the part of pupils.
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