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Mark Lehain: Education after the pandemic. Keep calm – and carry on as we were.

The third in a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about schools after Covid.

Comment, Highlights | By Mark Lehain | 25 March 2021 at 6:20 am

Mark Lehain: Every employee should have the same rights at work – regardless of trade union membership

Widening the ways in which workers get support can only be a good thing, for employees and employers alike.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 17 March 2021 at 10:30 am

Mark Lehain: The end of unconscious bias training and Truss’s coming speech on equality – signs of a Ministerial anti-woke fightback.

They’re part of a broader move by the Government to rein in some of the more extreme politically correct excesses that went unchecked before.

Comment, Highlights | By Mark Lehain | 16 December 2020 at 6:30 am | 33 comments

Mark Lehain: The Government has got it right on next year’s exams

The Department of Education confirmed GCSEs and A Levels will go ahead in England for 2021, albeit with measures to help students affected by Covid.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 3 December 2020 at 2:30 pm | 6 comments

Mark Lehain: The Government can’t afford to surrender in the war on woke

The fifth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.

Comment, Highlights | By Mark Lehain | 20 November 2020 at 6:20 am | 60 comments

Mark Lehain: “The Government stands unequivocally against critical race theory.” The significance of Badenoch’s speech this week.

The Campaign for Common Sense has four simple, low-effort, suggestions as to how schools can be helped to get back on track.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 22 October 2020 at 9:30 am | 42 comments

Mark Lehain: The Government must make a top priority of getting schools back this autumn

Any delay will be exploited by the Blob to try and roll back a decade of progress on testing, inspections, and accountability.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 12 June 2020 at 2:00 pm | 36 comments

Mark Lehain: Two-thirds of adults are concerned about political correctness. That’s why I’ve started the Campaign for Common Sense.

Groupthink and blame culture have had a detrimental effect on our debates. It’s time we stopped walking on eggshells.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 25 May 2020 at 12:00 pm | 77 comments

Mark Lehain: The rivalries and Corbynism that are driving the biggest education union’s extremist stance on school reopenings

I’m a former union rep myself – and am finding that schools, empowered by the Gove reforms, are quietly getting on with preparations,

Comment, Highlights | By Mark Lehain | 19 May 2020 at 6:20 am | 47 comments

Mark Lehain: Ending the union monopoly on workplace representation would be a positive change

Allowing alternative organisations at hearing would mean levelling up the quality of life for workers.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 24 February 2020 at 4:30 pm | 25 comments

Mark Lehain: No, Ben – every child must be given the chance to share our common heritage

Sending pupils early into academic and vocational pathways would allow too many schools to lower their sights and expecations.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 6 February 2020 at 12:00 pm | 25 comments

Future of Education 2) Mark Lehain: Now we need full academisation and reformed funding

The second writer in our mini-series says that creating more grammars is a distraction from change that matters.

Comment, Highlights | By Mark Lehain | 20 February 2019 at 6:20 am | 14 comments

Mark Lehain: Gove was right to support headteachers over excluded pupils

Halfon is wrong to attribute the rise in school exclusion rates to any disregard for those affected.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 1 February 2019 at 11:00 am | 25 comments

Yesterday’s results show that free schools are working. Now Conservatives must back them fully once again.

I was glad to see the Prime Minister and the Education Secretary doing so recently – particularly now that Rayner is clear she will scrap the programme.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 17 October 2018 at 3:45 pm | 24 comments

Mark Lehain: Rayner says Labour will reject Gove’s school reforms – but what would they establish in their place?

Families and teachers deserve some details on what is being proposed in place of free schools and academies.

Comment | By Mark Lehain | 24 September 2018 at 6:13 pm | 24 comments

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