The foundation level papers fail to test fundamental skills.
They should employ writers who understand their subject well enough to explain it clearly to pupils.
And their doing so can help end the relative underperformance of northern schools.
Some Gervase Phinn’s jokes were a little risqué, but not too much, a little like the PM at question time.
Labour’s botched 2006 Act should be repealed.
Pupils are “exposed” to German with no explanation of the structures of the language, leaving them with no idea of how to speak or write it.
He was quick to detect rubbish and obfuscation – both of which he rightly identified as the stock in trade of his civil servants.
Those who suffer most from mixed ability teaching are, however, at the bottom of the heap rather than the top.
But too often the switch to comprehensives meant mixed ability, equality of outcomes and the head being beaten up.
The Left’s claims to favour an alternative path to academic excellence lack credibility.
School standards mean it is unremarkable that the Germans are often so fluent in English.
Sorting out the school inspection system in an early challenge for Justine Greening.
Amidst the stand off over the next chief executive school inspections have been cut to the bone.
His legacy will be an inspection regime that is not working.