The association meets tonight to choose the person whom it hopes will succeed Nick Boles.
The three would-be successors to Sir Edward Garnier. Plus, six new candidates, and the shortlist for Leeds North East.
A headmaster, a law lecturer, a former CF chairman and the Daily Telegraph’s Head of Technology make the cut.
Tim Clark is Headmaster of a Lincolnshire grammar school, recently judged “outstanding” by Ofsted, and on the approved list of Conservative parliamentary candidates. “Education, education, education” was a memorable, but totally vacuous, catch phrase; twelve years later one third of 11-year-olds cannot read or write properly, only one half of all 16-year-olds manage to attain […]
Tim Clark is Headmaster of a Lincolnshire grammar school, recently judged “outstanding” by Ofsted, and on the approved list of Conservative parliamentary candidates. “An exotic species in an unnatural habitat” – So ran a headline in a recent Times Educational Supplement. The same article commented that the large number of politicians recently visiting state schools […]