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Posts Tagged: Education Select Committee

Robert Halfon: Without a strong local councillor base, we are nothing as a Party. We forget our councillors at our peril.

It really worries me when coming elections are discussed only in terms of the future of the party leadership.

By Robert Halfon MP | 22 February 2022

Sarah Ingham: No, Prime Minister, Britain does not need to atone for so-called ecocide

The Industrial Revolution wrought enormous change, enriching the country and its people. It was a force for global good and thank goodness for it.

By Dr Sarah Ingham | 7 January 2022

Emily Carver: The decision to recommend masks in classrooms is utterly indefensible

Decision-makers are merely trying to appease those who would rather keep schools closed.

By Emily Carver | 5 January 2022

Robert Halfon: Dealing with child hunger isn’t a left-wing issue. The Government must, and can, do more.

By using sugar tax funds, it could greatly alleviate some of the difficulties in schools across the country.

By Robert Halfon MP | 15 December 2021

Robert Halfon: Skills shortages cost the UK billions a year. Re-setting our education system can change this – and boost pupils’ prospects.

Students need skills like resilience, financial education, oracy and teamwork to secure jobs and thrive in employment.

By Robert Halfon MP | 17 November 2021

Robert Halfon: Reshuffles. The soreness of being sacked. And how to bounce back.

As a Committee Chair, you can campaign for the things you believe in, speak to the media more freely – and still get things done.

By Robert Halfon MP | 22 September 2021

Robert Halfon: Nearly a million white working-class disadvantaged pupils don’t and can’t have white privilege

The term pits one group against another and does more to damage race relations than enhance them.

By Robert Halfon MP | 30 June 2021

How Johnson thinks. One can’t “let in daylight upon magic”.

The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?

By Paul Goodman | 26 January 2021 | 50 comments

Chris Skidmore: Thinking, fast and slow. Why we need a long-term Education Recovery Plan.

Too much learning has been lost, and too many children will find their educational outcomes affected, to simply return to business as usual.

By Chris Skidmore MP | 20 January 2021 | 4 comments

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 | 8 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 | 66 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 | 13 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 | 129 comments

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