By Catherine Wang Ask who assesses a French secondary pupil, and the answer is: their own teacher. Ninety-six per cent of collège teachers report managing their own assessment process frequently or always, against an OECD average of 77 per cent. That is the highest share among the thirteen countries surveyed, and it means French teachers carry more responsibility for grading their own pupils’ work than teachers in any other country in the sample. Ask those same teachers wheth

By Lucy Crehan People have been attempting to learn from education systems ‘elsewhere’ for thousands of years. All the way back in...

By SAM FREEDMAN AUG 06, 2022 Sam Freedman considers his years in policy-making and implementation at the Department for Education, and...

The issues that we deal with in education are undoubtedly incredibly complex, particularly in relation to the uniqueness of each situation..