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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Education</title>
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		<title>David Willetts, &#8220;Our university revolution has only just begun&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Willetts writes in the Telegraph: Our university revolution has only just begun: Despite some dire warnings about the Coalition’s student finance reforms, we’ve already had more applications to university than in any year under the previous government. Once the decline in the total number of 18 year olds has been accounted for, their application ]]></description>
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		<title>A fascinating speech by Michael Gove</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/a-fascinating-speech-by-michael-gove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve faced a good deal of opposition in the last year and a half. And I am certain 2012 will be no different. Because one thing I&#8217;ve come to realise during my time as Education Secretary is that the opposition we face is of a very particular kind&#8230; It&#8217;s ironic, if you think about it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Durand: A triumph of educational reason</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/05/durand-a-triumph-of-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 08:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NB: This post is by Tim Hewish, Steve&#8217;s researcher. I was delighted to learn that the Durand Academy has been successful in its request to set up a free boarding school for acutely underprivileged children in Stockwell, South London. When Steve and I visited back in January, we were greatly encouraged by the transformational work ]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers as heroes</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/04/teachers-as-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Parliamentary recess, but recess isn&#8217;t time off: it&#8217;s time to catch up and to work in the Constituency, carrying out all those visits which simply aren&#8217;t possible when Parliament is sitting four days a week. One of the greatest privileges I have as MP for Wycombe is visiting our schools. In the past week, ]]></description>
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		<title>Expanding the English Baccalaureate</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/03/expanding-the-english-baccalaureate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, I had the opportunity to speak on a panel at the Buckinghamshire Academy for School Leadership (BASL) conference. This event was attended by almost all of the Heads and Deputy Heads from both primary and secondary schools in Bucks. A recurring theme throughout the morning was concern over the English Baccalaureate and the ]]></description>
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		<title>Free Schools for the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/02/free-schools-for-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher — Steve Building on our visit to Durand Academy, I listened to Monday’s Today programme on Free Schools where the question posed was: How can the Government afford to hand out extra capital to Free Schools when the Department of Education has had cut backs? ]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Hewish: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/02/fiction-reveals-truths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher &#8212; Steve My attention was recently drawn to the reduced £13 million funding for State initiatives to provide books to pre-schoolers in the form of Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up. I can sense the reactionary response: Why would any Government withdraw money for children’s books? ]]></description>
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		<title>ConservativeHome&#8217;s Platform: Michael Gove: The scale of our education challenge is so great that we need urgent reform. On every front.</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/01/conservativehomes-platform-michael-gove-the-scale-of-our-education-challenge-is-so-great-that-we-need-urgent-reform-on-every-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas the most comprehensive survey of global educational achievement ever conducted showed that in the last ten years we have plummeted in the rankings: from 4th to 16th  for science, 7th to 25th for literacy and 8th to 28th for maths. In tests of mathematics, Chinese 15-year-olds are now more than two years ]]></description>
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		<title>My reflections on our visit to Durand Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/01/my-reflections-on-our-visit-to-durand-academy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/01/my-reflections-on-our-visit-to-durand-academy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.B. The author is Tim Hewish &#8211; my Parliamentary Researcher. We have just returned this afternoon having visited the Durand Academy in South London. Researchers spend much of their time reading and studying policy, some policies better than others, but we often do not get to see the practical implementations.Therefore, it was a privilege to ]]></description>
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		<title>Visited the Durand Academy this morning</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/01/visited-the-durand-academy-this-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I visited the Durand Academy with my researcher Tim, meeting the inspiring director, Greg Martin. Their philosophy is simple: At Durand we believe that where you send your child to school will be one of the most important decisions you ever make. Our commitment to you is that every child that comes through ]]></description>
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