In a new debate article in Evidence & Policy, I argue that Ofsted, the body that inspects England’s schools, engaged in what I term research-washing when it published its 2021 Mathematics…

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The Confusion About a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum

This piece has been written by Dr Alex Standish from UCL Institute of Education, in response to my piece What’s the point: Creating a future-facing geography curriculum.

Creating a future-facing geography curriculum

VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2 2026 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: Editorial Essays This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

New research by UCL finds a dip in academic performance between ages 11 and 14

Brendan Conway asks who are the main characters in the stories we tell about our geography? Who are the knowledge-makers, and why don't we know them?