Nick Gibb:
I visited 100s of schools across the country & it became increasingly clear to me that maths & English were not being taught as effectively as the evidence suggested they could. This is not to say that teachers were not hardworking professionals... 1/3 (what evidence?)

who wanted the very best for their pupils. They were. They were simply being let down by the curriculum and by some of the ideas emanating from university education faculties. At the time it was a curriculum that prioritised inefficient methods in maths

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with an over-emphasis on concepts such as ‘learning to learn’ and ‘individualised instruction’ at the expense of content, practice and through that, fluency and mastery.

Pedagogy seemingly reduced to "Behave, will yer! And do those exercises!"

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