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Posts Tagged: Education Select Committee

Robert Halfon: The levelling-up ladder risks being knocked away by Covid-inspired decisions on education

Children’s opportunities in life will suffer as a result of school closures – and there still hasn’t been much data to explain why they were needed.

By Robert Halfon MP | 13 January 2021 | 9 comments

WATCH: Halfon presses Williamson on the Government’s pandemic support for teachers and pupils

The Chair of the Education Select Committee presses the Secretary of State on access to technology, assessment, and vaccination for school staff.

6 January 2021

Robert Halfon: Who’s up for a Southern Research Group?

There is deprivation and lower educational attainment in the southern new towns, coastal communities, inner cities and rural coldspots.

By Robert Halfon MP | 18 November 2020 | 69 comments

Robert Halfon: Delivering social justice means feeding children properly. We’re not doing so – and we must.

The Government’s own calculations of welfare payments do not cost in the provision of a healthy diet.

By Robert Halfon MP | 7 October 2020 | 14 comments

John Bald: Ofqual’s evidence at a Select Committee this week demonstrated why it should be wound up

Dr Meadows said that all sorts of trials had taken place. The point is: why not this one, which would have allowed problems to be identified in advance?

By John Bald | 4 September 2020 | 46 comments

Labour’s hypocrisy over A Level results

Starmer has been scathing about Williamson’s U-turn. But what right does he have to criticise?

By Charlotte Gill | 18 August 2020 | 130 comments

Jeannette Towey: Let’s repurpose empty independent schools to support vulnerable children

A number of highly-equipped educational establishments will be out of use until the next academic year. We should use them.

By Jeannette Towey | 23 June 2020 | 27 comments

Robert Halfon: The Budget we need today is for social as well as physical infrastructure

Plus: As of writing, I’ve had hardly any communications at all from constituents about the Coronavirus.

By Robert Halfon MP | 11 March 2020 | 4 comments

Full membership list of select committees

The Exiting the European Union Committee has been renamed. The Conservative MPs elected to it are staunch Brexiteers.

By Harry Phibbs | 5 March 2020 | 57 comments

Julian Brazier: Universities in the bottom half of the sector would howl. But here are the reforms we should make to the system.

Surely there is a strong case for capping student applications, not in arbitrary numerical terms, but on the basis of academic achievement at school?

By Julian Brazier | 12 February 2020 | 31 comments

Three takeaways from yesterday’s select committee chairmanship elections

These bodies will play an important role in holding this majority Government to account. What will Downing Street make of the results?

By Henry Hill | 30 January 2020 | 6 comments

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 | 94 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 | 32 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

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