Lord Snooty has waded in with his Bright Idea.

Apparently, setting the entrance requirement for a teacher training course to a 2:2 or better will raise standards in education.

Would that be a 2:2 from a Russell Group University, or a 2:2 from a Million+ University?

And yes, there is a difference. A hell of a big difference.

Anyway, that prompts me to suggest my own three simple steps to raising standards in education:

1. Sack every single consultant, adviser and other daydreamer who produces “initiatives;”
2. Abolish the ridiculous system of measuring schools by the number of students who get a grade C or better at GCSE – because this creates a system where the brighter students are not pushed, and only the tiny fraction students who are on the C/D borderline actually get the full attention of all their teachers.
3. Take a proper, serious approach to classroom discipline. Stop passing the buck and blaming weak teaching. We need an infrastructure of behaviour support that, first and foremost, protects the vast majority of students from the disruptions that wreck their education.

There is only one universal rule in education: one size does not fit all.