Ed Dorrell

Delighted with the big fat namecheck for my recent @progbrit piece on the legendary @steverichards14 podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/0OLkrW…

@FraserNelson Fraser I would advise you to spend some time looking at the pedagogy being promoted by the independent sector. If you wanted a traditional education you'd be looking in the wrong place.

You can bet private school kids will still be taught and expected to memorise equations. This dumbing down - by ministerial diktat - will only deepen inequality: a case study in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

@HCFEprincipal At the @tes we used to track how the apprenticeship starts kept going back from the moment these reforms came into force. Incredible policy failure

Your 2017 apprenticeship reforms saw fewer opportunities for young people & increased bureaucracy for businesses & providers.

An article that is so ignorant of education policy - and that contains so many staggering internal contradictions - it's almost impossible to know where to start

So far it's been a pretty exemplary case from the DfE of how to handle a potentially thorny announcement: - Lots of prior engagement with parent groups/MPs/media - Experts on hand to provide answers - Secretary of State fronting up lots of interviews

An unusually good op ed from a serving pm

Brilliant report

Increasingly being submitted AI-written articles. Even the worst human writing has an abundance of signals about the writer in the choices they make. AI-written pieces give no signals and that is deeply weird to read. Some common features include...

Internal suspensions are a good option to keep children in school, learning and off social media. But head teachers will always have the discretion to remove pupils from school when they need to. Read more here: educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/suspen…

Very happy to report that: 1. There are *no* plans to make internal suspensions the default, by law or guidance. They plan is that they will become an *option*, where students need to be suspended but sending them home would expose them to unacceptable risk, abuse etc. 2. Heads still decide when to do this. It will likely be a very small % of circumstances. 3. Suspensions are a vital part of a school’s repertoire of strategies to use in order to keep schools safe and calm. They’re not a failure; they’re a tactic that must be used when necessary. I’m not sure why this is being reported, but it’s not accurate. Lots of great schools already use a variety of forms of internal inclusion units to keep kids in school for short periods but away from the environment/ peers they’ve disrupted, with an aim to work with the kids towards reintegration. It’s a brilliant strategy that already works really well. It’s an intervention used with the aspiration to reduce the need to suspend in the future. We should be learning from these schools. To be clear: schools must suspend externally when they need to, and that power resides with the school leader.

"To be clear, they knew much more about Charlie Kirk than Sir Keir Starmer." Me and my PF team have been travelling the country talking about politics with Year 8s... because they'll be 16 and voting at the next election...

Not bad for a bus stop in Hounslow

Oh and thanks too to @nicolawoolcock for her brilliant write up in today's Times. 9/9 thetimes.com/article/a6adf1…

The whole project was and is designed to be as USEFUL to schools and teachers as possible. It is a great resource. Please do take a look. 8/9

Today is an exciting day at Public First Towers. Today, with the support of its brilliant founder Fiona Forbes, we launch the Parent Voice Project. 1/9 theparentvoiceproject.org.uk