About Education Uncovered

Education Uncovered offers exclusive news stories, analysis and comment about what is really going on in England’s schools, to a depth rarely seen elsewhere in the education media.

I set up Education Uncovered back in 2017 because I thought there was a need for a website which could delve in depth into problems with policymaking in terms of its effects on schools in England.

I was receiving so many contacts from people with stories which I thought needed telling, about ground-level scandals and controversies, that I was convinced there had to be a vehicle for discussing such developments.

The idea from the start has been to investigate policy both in terms of its national formulation, and in its manifestation for schools and their communities, including reporting on how local developments connect.

A focus has been the impact of changes to school structures through the academies policy, which has seen the control of thousands of state-funded schools changed dramatically, at a scale possibly not seen anywhere else in the world.

But the entire policy set-up in relation to schools, including the relationship between the Department for Education and organisations and individuals close to it, has come under scrutiny on these pages.

Since its foundation, Education Uncovered has carried hundreds of detailed reports, with some stories told on an ongoing basis over months or even years. It is updated frequently during term-time, taking breaks during school holidays.

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