Elizabeth Truss is Conservative MP for South West Norfolk and author of Academic rigour and social mobility: how low income students are being kept out of top jobs, which was published last week by CentreForum. The hallmark of this Government must be meritocracy; that is what will drive social mobility and power economic growth. An […]
Liz Truss is Conservative MP for South West Norfolk. I am a believer in the “and” theory of education. It is possible and desirable to give secondary students both academic and vocational education; students should not have to make an “either” choice at 14. Most leading developed countries are already of this school of thought. […]
Elizabeth Truss is Conservative MP for South West Norfolk. Modularisation has been creeping into the education system for many years; parcelling up education into bite size chunks, making it more easily digestible for students. Universities have had modular courses since the 1990s and before. Modularisation was put into A-Levels in 2000, which squeezed subjects like […]
Elizabeth Truss is Deputy Director of the independent think tank Reform, and co-author of its new report, A new level, which is published today and concludes that today’s students are being badly let down by the A-level system. The relationship between politicians and academics has not always been an easy one. However, a reforming Government […]
Elizabeth Truss is deputy director of Reform, the independent, non-party think-tank, and is co-author of its pre-Budget paper, Back to Black. Published today, it contains a number of proposals that would enable public spending to be cut at a stroke by £30 billion, which Elizabeth previews here. George Osborne has indicated he will focus on […]
Elizabeth Truss is deputy director of Reform, the independent, non-party think-tank, and is co-author of its new paper on police reform, A New Force, which is published today. Here she previews that paper. Tuesday’s announcement that police forces will be obliged to cut officer numbers going into recession to get the budgets into shape puts […]
Laura Kounine and Elizabeth Truss, Reform’s Education Researcher and Deputy Director, highlight the cost to the country of our desperate lack of mathematicians – as documented in their new report. It is socially acceptable, cool even, to claim that you are “no good at maths” whereas people would be ashamed to admit they couldn’t read. […]
Elizabeth Truss is Deputy Director at Reform and Lucy Parsons is Economics Researcher at Reform. Reform’s full report “Shifting the unequal state: from public apathy to personal capability” is available here. There is much political concern about the parlous state of Britain’s social mobility. However little acknowledged is the role successive governments have had in […]
Elizabeth Truss, a councillor in Greenwich and Deputy Director of Reform, looks at the some of the ways new media is already changing our way of life. In their book Wikinomics, Dan Tapscott and Anthony Williams described “a new age of participation and mass collaboration… endangering the future of hierarchies as a mode of organizational […]
Elizabeth Truss is Reform’s Deputy Director and Laura Kounine is Reform’s Education and Crime Research Officer. The main political parties have both spoken of their support for the academies programme as though it is the litmus test of educational reform. A new report published by the independent think tank Reform argues that the current academies […]
Elizabeth Truss is the Deputy Director of Reform. Change seems to be in the air this year. In the US Presidential election we are told about epic struggles for control between the old and new generations. And from a seemingly benign economic environment in Britain, we are facing serious economic challenges. Just of course when […]
Elizabeth Truss is the MP for South-West Norfolk Network Rail relies on a huge amount of public subsidy and heavy government regulation to run its operation. Yet at a meeting in February, I was told by its executives that it was a “private” company and it could “do what it wanted” on the controversial local […]