Sometimes practical details – such as fluorescent light being used in school, but not at home – are overlooked. The interests of the individual pupil are ignored by the “progressives”.
The Telegraph’s report this week that universities are tilting against applicants from “advantaged” backgrounds undermines ministers’ efforts to restore post-Covid sanity to pupils’ grades.
For most of us, the best interests of the overwhelming majority takes precedence over what may erroneously be construed as in the best interest of a few disruptive individuals.
I draw on Public First’s Conservative Leadership Policy Tracker which is being continuously updated for all the above.
Conservatives cannot afford to cede the initiative to Labour’s short-sighted politics of spite.
The backlash against the Schools Bill is just the latest sign that we have let schools slip off the Conservative agenda.
Undoing the good work of dismantling Labour’s quangos, only to create another one, five times as big, in the Education Endowment Foundation, is plain old-fashioned folly.
The Government now intends to remove the first 18 clauses of its own legislation and present the Commons with new ones in the autumn.
Parents are becoming more and more reliant on schools – and the state – to play the role of mum and dad.
This is too important an issue for too many people for ‘the optics of a fight with Labour’ to be the primary motivation.
It marks a shift from his original vision, which placed a much greater emphasis on individual schools having the freedom to do their own thing.
Access to better schools is more dependent on one’s finances than it was when we still needed ration books.
The Education Secretary will have powers to decide key details later, without parliamentary oversight – such as sharing children’s sensitive personal data.
From home schooling to free speech on the internet, ministers keep turning good principles into bad law.