Political references removed from Gove Policy Exchange speech. So, what, if...
[Political references have been removed from this speech] Note above transcript of speech by Michael Gove to Policy Exchange in June 2014. So, what political references were these? Had the DfE been...
View ArticleIslington – doing brilliantly without academies
Research published recently finds that expecting pupils to go to their local school has the net effect that poorer children are much less likely to attend high-achieving schools. This is demonstrably...
View ArticleDurham LA criticised for slow action in two of its schools – but DfE rules...
Labour MP Kevan Jones has criticised the Labour council in Durham for being slow to act after he raised concerns about two Durham community secondary schools in 2013. But the two schools had been...
View ArticleEd on Ed: the subtly shifting Labour narrative on schools
In the end, perhaps, it passed with more of a whimper than a bang. Or rather, the bang was elsewhere – with the question of Tory tax evasion, especially as Ed Miliband chose to use the closing passages...
View ArticleStoke-on-Trent ‘failing’ to improve schools, says Ofsted, but KS2 results...
‘Stoke-on-Trent council failing to improve the city’s schools’ Ofsted press release, 25 March 2015 But Ofsted’s letter to the city council acknowledged Stoke-on-Trent’s primary schools had ‘improved...
View ArticleWhat happened then…?
At least three members of the House of Lords, a junior minister, Executive Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman, Head of the Home Civil Service, The...
View ArticleS/he won’t want it, but here is my advice to the next Education Secretary
Whoever you are you’ve been pretty quiet about education during the election campaign. Perhaps we can hope you’ll stay quiet during the next five years. Silence, remember, is Golden. I fear, however,...
View ArticleThe firm Gove said he would let run schools causes chaos in Lincolnshire
When ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove was shadow secretary before the 2010 election, he told Policy Exchange he would allow groups like Serco to run schools. Since then Serco has been involved with...
View ArticleSave Lincolnshire Schools – Part Two!
Some readers may remember a Lincolnshire campaign in 2010/11 against wholesale academy conversion, which was a policy that the local authority endorsed. I was fortunate enough to have chaired the...
View ArticleHow to get 500 free schools PDQ. Easy, just change the rules.
The Conservatives went into the General Election promising to deliver 500 new free schools in the course of this Parliament. It seemed an ambitious target at a time of austerity when the creation of...
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