The same people who vote on new bills or get promoted to minister or secretary of state, make idealogical decisions on how major systems should function with no clear idea about what goes on.

I despair when I hear people say that they hate science, because they reap the benefits of it every day.

Schools can resist the EBac, but at the cost of never being considered outstanding by Ofsted.

Unfortunately, the better attitude of making small changes, to more gradually improve the system, does not seem to be an option.

It is generally believed to be the case that the dinosaurs and vast numbers of other species were wiped out by a large asteroid hitting Earth on the Yucatan peninsula about 65 million years ago.

Until Kepler, cultures had come up with a variety of explanations to try and understand why the Sun temporarily vanished from the sky.

Vulnerability is a central part of being alive and being human.

The expression of emotions and personal stories being heard promotes pupils’ capacity for rational learning.

Setting is to be encouraged but left to the individual schools to organise as they see fit.

It is a curious that being a good friend is thought of as being a skill to be learned.