The new Government can’t realistically aim to target its programme on everyone. To govern is to choose.
Academic selection provides both an incentive to play by the rules that will stand children in good stead in later life – and a means of escaping those who don’t.
It is wrong to hold selection tests on specific days – with mock papers available for middle class parents to buy and tutor their children for.
Bishops’ hearts may be with Labour but, in education and elsewhere, they’ve learned to work with the Conservatives.
Anything that looks like a return to the “best-and-the-rest” model of the past will fail. Our modern, diverse school system is the key to restoring selection.
“The rule should be replaced by a legal duty on faith schools to ensure that their pupils mix with children of other backgrounds.”
We have never been more mainstream in the Conservative Party – so much so that most practitioners have never felt the need to identify themselves as such.
An awesome responsibility will greet the eventual winner. The new Prime Minister must rise to the greatest national challenge since that which confronted Churchill.
The case for Gove. His candidature is the one best placed not only to ensure that Britian quits the EU but that social mobility is boosted.
Shouldn’t the next Prime Minister be a Leave supporter? Do you support local authorities setting up new selective schools? Will you serve a full term if you win in 2020?
Cameron may soon be going, but we must ensure that his legacy is secured, our party should unite, and our work should begin again.
Last year, there were over 10,000 fewer A-levels being taken in languages than were taken at the end of the 1990s.
If teachers should not hold dominion over children, then, taken to its logical conclusion, surely parents should be prohibited from making decisions on behalf of their kids, too.
Ministers ought to be insistent that children deserve an education that will allow them to fulfil their potential.
Both systems are flawed and fail to make the most of our children’s potential.