General Discussion

[This text was originally publishes in CASEnotes #100] In March of this year, the shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said that school pupils must “learn to challenge” media narratives. Speaking at the annual conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), Phillipson

Place  planning is a statutory duty of local authorities. Quite simply it means managing the number of school places within its area, both ensuring that there are sufficient for the number of children locally, and reducing them as populations change. Since the 2012 Education Act this has become cons

This text was authored by Michael Pyke and can be found in its entirety in CASEnotes 100. Eighty years on from the great 1944 Education Act and with an election imminent, it seems appropriate for this hundredth edition of CASEnotes to begin by taking stock of our education system. What has changed