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Posts Tagged: Education Select Committee

Julian Brazier: Yes, the Conservatives must engage with young people – but challenge their worldview, not concede it

James Kanagasooriam’s recent analysis is powerful, but the suggested solutions are less sure. Simply offering what younger voters want won’t work.

By Sir Julian Brazier | 15 April 2019 | 95 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.

By Mark Lehain | 20 February 2019 | 14 comments

Conservative education policy is up for grabs

We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.

By Paul Goodman | 18 February 2019 | 31 comments

Robert Halfon: Excluded children should be safe and secure – not left vulnerable on our streets.

With gangs on our streets and knives in our schools, this is too big a societal issue to look at purely through the lens of our education system.

By Robert Halfon MP | 30 January 2019 | 4 comments

Robert Halfon: Do Barwell’s bean-counters lack the vision to see why Tories must campaign for social justice?

Plus: why John Bald is wrong to be critical on this site of the Education Select Committee’s report on school exclusions.

By Robert Halfon MP | 1 August 2018 | 13 comments

Robert Halfon: AK47s, pluralism, war, students, cigars – and I get high. What I saw amidst Kurdistan’s fledgeling democracy.

I hope that, one day, it is no longer just an autonomous region in Iraq, but gets the independence it deserves.

By Robert Halfon MP | 20 June 2018 | 5 comments

Profile: Damian Hinds – liberal Catholic, social mobility wonk, and new Education Secretary

it is quite conceivable that the Left of the party, casting around for a leadership contest standard bearer, will decide that he fits the bill.

By Andrew Gimson | 10 January 2018 | 53 comments

Conservative Select Committee election results. A squeeze on places, “Very high turnout” – and some prominent losers.

Ability, popularity with colleagues and specialist knowledge seem to have mattered more in these elections than intake or ideology.

By Paul Goodman | 5 September 2017 | 5 comments

Iain Dale: The biggest gossip in politics is interviewed by the biggest gossip in politics and names the biggest gossip in politics

Plus: The decline of books. Morgan sees off the cult of Mogg. Why I won’t fly RyanAir. And: As I reach a significant birthday, I mull writing my autobiography…

By Iain Dale | 14 July 2017 | 116 comments

Tugendhat, Morgan, Halfon elected. The new power of the Select Committees.

They already elect their chairmen and there will be fewer trips abroad – at least when the Commons is sitting. That means more scrutiny of what Ministers are up to.

By Paul Goodman | 13 July 2017 | 79 comments

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