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.
We trail a mini-series on what might happen next amidst a sense of uncertainty about will follow the Gove reforms.
Tailoring teaching to children’s needs and interests works in every type of education. Why restrict the benefits of selection?
As the son of a plumber who ran his own local business for several decades, I know that such technical professions can be extremely rewarding.
What is the objective of higher education if it does not play a major role in addressing our country’s skills deficit?
All the risks of the regime fall presently to students and taxpayers. Not only is this unfair and morally questionable, but it leads directly to undesirable outcomes.
Vocational and technical education are key to changing lives, and hold the potential to change people’s votes, too. They should dominate the Government’s attention.
“That means equality of access to an academic university education, and a much greater focus on the technical alternatives too.”
Of course, mistakes are made, and governments get things wrong – but there is also a duty to make sure that the good gets out into the public sphere too.
In the first of two pieces on Higher Education, the former Universities Minister argues that the conventional account of how fees and funding works is mistaken.
Yes, we need a resource shift to technical education. But the loss of the Tory majority last June will make it very slow going.
Gone is the Conservative certainty of reducing taxes to promote businesses’ own investment and growth.
The Chancellor has not suddenly changed who he is; he has carefully analysed the issues we face and plotted out a course of action to build a Britain fit for the future.
Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.
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.