Dear Nadhim Zahawi, the Tories vowed to ‘eradicate illiteracy’ years ago. What went wrong? | Michael Rosen

The education secretary should know the phonics system has been around since 2011 and is ‘proven to work’Welcome to your new job as education secretary. In your Conservative party conference speech you drew our attention to when you were at school. As …

Dear Gavin Williamson, if Latin is about levelling up, I have other ideas | Michael Rosen

Why not emulate private schools with class sizes, playing fields, music facilities and modern languages?Just as many of us are thinking ahead to winter and a possible next wave of Covid, worrying about whether schools have proper ventilation and what e…