In 2011, Scott Young set himself the challenge of learning MIT’s entire 4-year computer science degree, despite not being a student at the university. He

In my last blog, I showed how the PISA tests have been updated to take account of the fact we do more reading online. Not

Every three years, the OECD’s PISA tests report on student performance in maths, reading and science in dozens of countries. They also choose one subject

Imagine a class of 20 students, ten boys, ten girls. They all sit a maths exam which is graded from 0 – 9. On average,

Over the last couple of years the idea of a ‘mastery curriculum’ has become ever more popular – and ever more nebulous. I’ve heard the

In my book Making Good Progress I developed an analogy between education and marathon running. Put simply, you wouldn’t train for a marathon by trying