I believe we’ll win. But I could be wrong. So all this could be only a few weeks away…
“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”
Only by raising the quality and esteem of vocational and technical learning can we secure a future for academic selection.
Yes, academic selection should happen if there’s local demand for it. And no, it doesn’t have to mean a return to the 11 plus.
Of the grammar, academy and comprehensive ideals, only the first two are now left standing.
They are the logical next step in the increased variety of secondary schooling which is now on offer because of Michael Gove’s reforms.
Michael Gove’s successor upholds his reforms, opposes new grammar schools, dismisses Tristram Hunt as “vacuous”…and admires Henry VIII.
For every new grammar-run satellite school we would have five satellite schools run by councils ideologically opposed to losing control.
The text of my speech from yesterday evening’s debate on the future of the centre-right with Matthew Parris.
Their pledge of “a grammar school in every town” makes great headlines, but does it add up?
Also: Gaddafi’s ex-spymaster offers to reveal IRA connexions; and Welsh Tories double down on grammar schools.
A week on from the day of sackings, who’s rocking the Prime Minister’s boat?
The choice was between an unproven spendthrift Labour Party or a Conservative Council able to stand by its record of achievement.
The reality is that they can spout educational pie-in-the-sky because they know (as do we all) that they won’t be forming the next government.