The first in a series illustrating how the EU spends your money in its own interests. Today, The Comenius Programme: Comenius: Europe in the classroom The Comenius Programme focuses on all levels of school education, from pre-school and primary to secondary schools. It is relevant for everyone involved in school […]
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David Willetts, “Our university revolution has only just begun”
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 […]
Read MoreA fascinating speech by Michael Gove
We’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’ve come to realise during my time as Education Secretary is that the opposition we face is of a very particular kind… It’s ironic, […]
Read MoreDurand: A triumph of educational reason
NB: This post is by Tim Hewish, Steve’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 […]
Read MoreTeachers as heroes
It’s Parliamentary recess, but recess isn’t time off: it’s time to catch up and to work in the Constituency, carrying out all those visits which simply aren’t possible when Parliament is sitting four days a week. One of the greatest privileges I have as MP for Wycombe is visiting our […]
Read MoreExpanding the English Baccalaureate
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 […]
Read MoreFree Schools for the Future
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 […]
Read MoreTim Hewish: Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – my Parliamentary Researcher — 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 […]
Read MoreConservativeHome’s Platform: Michael Gove: The scale of our education challenge is so great that we need urgent reform. On every front.
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 […]
Read MoreMy reflections on our visit to Durand Academy
N.B. The author is Tim Hewish – 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, […]
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