The Government now intends to remove the first 18 clauses of its own legislation and present the Commons with new ones in the autumn.
The first in a mini-series of pieces on ConHome this week about schools after Covid.
It accounts for a larger share of output and a much larger share of productivity growth in poorer regions of the UK
A start can be made by cutting back the forthcoming Easter break and by shortening the summer term holidays.
Four in five of our party member respondents say yes. Hunt is top choice to come in from outside – but there’s no strong support for any non-member.
It may be necessary, given the Coronavirus, and could even work. But Britain has a long, long record of state spending failing to turbo-charge growth.
It’s a bit like the roof of Parliament’s Westminster Hall: which is held up by a lot of huge, ancient beams all resting on each other.
Educational traditionalists are wrong to believe that if we focus on academic rigour and high standards alone, everything else will fall into place.
The evidence of improved standards shows that a knowledge-rich curriculum is the best way to enable each person to achieve the best of which he or she is capable.
The reality is that most of it will be concentrated on pupils older than 16 – whatever the best age may be at which to select.
The recently departed Prime Minister is re-emerging – and working on his memoirs. He will want to project his greatest achievement: public service reform.
Our new book draws on a vast breadth of experience to make more than 40 recommendations for reform.