Jackie Long
Much is made of the need to educate children about healthy eating. But what of the thousands of children whose parents cannot afford to put enough meals, of any quality, on the table?
Jackie Long
I love a bit of pop music and know a good deal more about One Direction than is perhaps wise to admit, writes Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long. So what’s the verdict on Morgan Spurlock’s new film about the boy band?
Jackie Long
Judging comprehensives against fee-paying selective schools is not comparing like with like, as the Chief Inspector should know only too well.
Jackie Long
The Work Programme figures are not a disaster, says the employment minister. But not one of the 18 providers met the government’s end of first year minimum target on sustainable work.
Jackie Long
The company and Work and Pensions insisted the figures we broadcast were misleading and incomplete and we should wait for their official numbers. Well the wait is nearly over.
Jackie Long
The shocking details of what happened to one girl involved in the Rochdale abuse scandal is at odds with the official language of the report published today.
Jackie Long
If you took it in Wales you’ll now get a regrade. If you sat it over the border in England, you won’t. It’s hard to see how this situation could ever be regarded as fair – or how it can remain unchanged.
Jackie Long
Ofqual’s review into the GCSE marking mess found that students who took exams in January “got lucky”. But you’re not supposed to “get lucky” in the way potentially life-changing exams are graded.
Jackie Long
Employment Minister Chris Grayling is planning a tougher work-experience system for young people… but will unemployed graduates feel the benefit?
Jackie Long
Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long blogs on this year’s GCSE marking debacle, and who will get the blame.
Jackie Long
Anger over exam marks as grade boundaries are changed, causing accusations of disadvantaging this year’s students.
Jackie Long
As hundreds of thousands of students receive their A-level results, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long blogs on how the world that students will be entering has changed in the last few decades.
Jackie Long
Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long investigates what the numbers supplied by the government say about the success of its Work Programme.
Jackie Long
The latest figures obtained by Channel 4 News on A4e’s record in getting people jobs for the government’s Work Programme raise many questions.
Jackie Long
As the government decides to change the way that poverty is measured, Jackie Long writes about the “boring” business of being poor.