Two new ConHome columns begin tomorrow.
It is wrong to hold selection tests on specific days – with mock papers available for middle class parents to buy and tutor their children for.
Plus: the downfall of Boles. This Eagle won’t fly. What to do with Gove? Cameron should become Foreign Secretary. And: Out there in the country, Blair is still popular.
Managing the controversial White Paper through into action is a formidable task for the woman who is mulling a future crack at the leadership.
The views of parents matter – and they can serve as a bulwark against corruption.
The academies plan could mark the start of a more effective, cheaper, de-centralised, responsive and accountable way of running the nation’s services.
He makes the case for the Government’s extension, and Chris Cook of Newsnight (formerly a Willetts adviser) the case against it.
We should start by recognising that current public services are not quite fit for purpose, and that cuts afford us an opportunity.
Labour allowed fashionable theories to undermine effective teaching and foster mass innumeracy, but this Government is putting it right.
They have helped to spread opportunity, raise life chances and make a difference.
They should have to show that changes to the civil service’s departmental structures serve the public interest rather than party political or personnel management goals.
Burdens have been lifted. But what are we supposed to do now?