The A-Level pass rate has risen for the 28th successive year. Debasing the coinage. It's what governments do....

Speaking after the Education Committee meeting today, Basil McCrea MLA, and Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson on Education, has claimed that the UUP's position has been vindicated by the Department of Education's admittance that the Education Bill is not what was originally envisaged under RPA.

Mostly unnoticed in last Friday's post-election fall out, at about lunch time the department for innovation, universities and skills disappeared. There is now no minister for education or universities in the government. This is a curious state of affairs for a party that first won power with education at the top of its list of priorities; and although the record is certainly not all bad, it c...

If English primary school education is "deficient" due to too much focus on maths, English and testing, why are so many children struggling to master basic English!?!

Apparently, most aspiring Conservative candidates want to be Education Secretary, according to a Conservative Home survey. Perhaps they see it as the easiest option for people with limited experience of anything else - after all, they all went to school, so they must be education experts. On the other hand, perhaps they genuinely feel education is the most important issue facing government. So may...

Please go over and read the whole thing. The Tories to be fair are already making noises about taking control of education away from the centre and handing it back to local communities. The trouble is that the "education community" at every level has been indoctrinated with "progressive" ideas for over a century. If you want radical thinking on education, you need to listen to parents, not educato...

As I mentioned in my previous post, our education project involved a number of volunteers in Kigali and around Rwanda, teaching English to hundreds of Rwandan English teachers. As I and seven other volunteers arrived at the Fawe boarding school...

Tom Paine has a cracking piece on how lefty educators have fucked us all.

Education spokesperson for the Ulster Unionist Party, Mr Basil McCrea, has described Caitriona Ruane as ";an absolute, utter joke";, and said that the people of Northern Ireland will ";rue the day"; that she became Minister of Education.

I spent much of today visiting Further Education Colleges in my region so that I could discuss the impact of Welsh Government cuts on them. Despite the fact that the Government's Education Department received a 5.5% uplift in its funding in the next financial year they have delivered a cut in the money they are putting into further education. There is in fact £3 million less to spend on...