Free schools would not be allowed where there are surplus places.
Tristam Hunt said “we live in very different economic circumstances” to justify forcing parents to send their children to bad, half empty schools
My own children suffered as a result of the inadequacies of the Island’s education system
Teaching in technical education in London at the time, I saw at first hand the strengths and weaknesses of the then Education Secretary’s radical reforming measure
Don’t over-promise, or you’ll be punished when you under-deliver.
The Telegraph’s report of his view is a sign of rising media interest in the Chairmen of the ’22’s Policy Committees. Expect to see more it.
Instead of damaging political cons like his Canute-like pledge to freeze prices, it is time to get energy back to the market.
The Deputy Prime Minister is incapable of deciding whether he trusts headteachers or wants to dictate to them.
Ofsted’s leaked report on Al-Mahdina School in Derby is the most damning in the organisation’s 20-year history.
Within a day, Tristram Hunt was denouncing them as a “dangerous ideological experiment which has been allowed to run completely out of control.”
Ultimately, there must always be a national standard, in schools or elsewhere – even if this is simply to ensure that the law of the land is applied.
Like Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Gove has turned out to be far more in tune with public opinion than Labour was, and is now dragging his opponents along in his wake.
Many people, allies and enemies alike, think that the main purpose of Michael Gove’s education reforms is to bring back traditional teaching methods. Mr Gove himself gives that impression, giving schools greater freedoms, but at the same time using his authority to insist upon the kind of rigorous standards that traditionalists would surely applaud. All […]
And academies and free schools should be able to borrow.