Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

Emerging markets are hugely important.