All I am trying to do is give impetus to a national conversation about how our education system should prepare our young people for the future.
Shifting the focus to FE is not only the right thing to do, but would send a powerful message.
The third writer in our mini-series argues for a focus on finding and keeping good teachers. And asking tough questions of some PGCE courses.
The second writer in our mini-series says that creating more grammars is a distraction from change that matters.
We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.
It is rarely Brexit that people raise on the doorstep. It is concerns about the NHS; their local school; the difficulties faced by social care, or the rise in violent crime.
Durham Students Union is looking into ways of shutting down a new pro-life group on campus. This group is entirely unaffiliated with the students union.
The more one thinks about it, the more problematic it becomes.
The costs could be offset by encouraging a tenth of students away from low-value university and towards higher-value technical education.
Its left-wing, metropolitan agenda is now at the heart of everything it does. And viewers are switching off in droves.
It is a sad and all-too-obvious fact that most of the decision makers I meet in my role as Mayor are people who look like me.
Plus: Tory MPs, the world’s most duplicitous electorate. But a certain long-serving woman Labour MP is sending Christmas cards to them all…
The oft-maligned ‘gig economy’ is delivering flexibility, innovation, choice, and value to millions. But for it to keep doing so, we must adapt.
Plus: Unsung Conservative heroes. The Centre for Rocket Studies. And: why do we need the traditional, three-year University course?
Our new Covenant establishes a set of principles to guide private, public, and third-sector organisations who want to help.