Scrap the Schools Adjudicator
Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, laments that £1.3 million of taxpayers money is spent on a body… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Education
Kent plans expansion in grammar school provision
Conservative controlled Kent County Council is planning to create more grammar school places. The plan is not to create new… Read more »
In defence of Michael Becker
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education on the teacher taken to court for hauling a disruptive pupil out… Read more »
Primary Schools: Suppressing the data won’t solve the problem
Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, says the "progressive" educationalists are still seeking to stop parents knowing about… Read more »
Protecting the Council Taxpayers in Leicestershire
Cllr David Parsons, the Conservative leader of Leicestershire County Council, says it is not his Council who are being unreasonable…. Read more »
Councils should be open about school failure
Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, suspects truancy is linked to children's embarrassment at being unable to read. Councils should check… Read more »
Why is Leicestershire County Council trying to grab a village school?
Rosie Featherstone, a Conservative member and Leicestershire resident, is dismayed that her Conservative-controlled county council is spending £5.5 million in… Read more »
More CTCs will be great news – but what about more grammar schools and independent schools?
Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, gives a "must do better" verdict to Tory schools policy. This week's… Read more »
School governors should be waste busters
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education says the Handover report shows that councillors and school governors should check… Read more »
Bromley council considering has no intention of “helping jobless parents pay private school fees”
2pm update: The leader of Bromley Council, Stephen Carr, has just issued the following statement in response to the story… | 50 comments
£633 million could be saved on school quangos
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education welcomes a call for the axe to fall on school quangos. It… Read more »
Ditching A-levels is not the answer
Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, says that while the A-level has suffered grade inflation, but diplomas and the… Read more »
Stop blaming the independent sector for state failure
Nick Seaton, of the Campaign for Real Education, says the education establishment should stop passing the buck. Yesterday, Lord (of… Read more »
Class War attack on independent schools
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education says the Charity Commission's attack on independent schools is politically motivated. Last… Read more »
Cllr David Ashton: If councils turn a blind to parents’ lies on school application forms then the system becomes unworkable
Cllr David Ashton, Conservative Leader of Harrow Council, explains why his council chose to prosecute a parent who provided misleading… Read more »