The OfS’s Director for Fair Access and Participation, John Blake, argues that raising students’ attainment is about supporting young people to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed.
I don't know if I've mentioned it, but I used to be a teacher. I used to teach history. As everyone knows, a staple of the English history curriculum is World War II, and a staple of teaching about World War II is propaganda posters. Those of the totalitarian world have an awful fascination – stern-faced dictators pointing in various directions, promising utopia at the end of a long and bloody road.