We’re facing a crisis in our secondary schools. Student numbers are expected to increase dramatically, but the Department for Education has struggled to recruit the number of teachers needed to meet the increased demand.
Since the 1970s it seems Britain’s schools have been through an endless number of reforms.
Over the next few years, approximately 10,000 school leaders -- heads, deputies and assistant heads -- will be retiring.
Behind teacher accountability measures and high-stakes testing is the intention of creating positive outcomes for students. The problem is that tests only measure how well a student understands a particular subject matter.
Britain's schools are facing some big challenges, not the least of which is the reduction of funding in recent years.
According to the UCL Institute of Education blog, since the 2010 coalition government announced that schools should be focused on “educating young people,” there have been a whole slew of new expectations placed on schools.
UK schools are facing some big challenges. In addition to a shortage of teachers, particularly in secondary schools, the student population is growing.
The industrial economy is long gone in the UK, replaced instead by the knowledge economy, wherein more people work in front of a computer than on an assembly line. Unfortunately, the education system is still structured for the industrial age.
