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Conor Ryan Articles

Towards fairer school admissions

Labour should do more to promote fairer admissions in comprehensive schools and academies. After all, the evidence suggests that lower income students do better academically and socially with a mix of students from different income backgrounds in a school. With most...

Gove put to the test

Education sat at the heart of the Tories’ pre-election public service reform agenda. How have their aspirations survived the coalition’s first year in power? Conor Ryan investigates.

Not a vintage PMQs

Conor Ryan casts his eye over this week’s PMQs, noting an off-colour Cameron, with Miliband having the best line of the day

Freshers’ fair

It was Peter Mandelson who commissioned Lord Browne’s university funding report, and his team were nominated by a Labour government. That explains why he has made so much effort to achieve fairness in a difficult financial environment, and why Ed Miliband should not oppose his plans – or the government’s version – when they are put to a vote.

Gove put to the test

May 26, 2011 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine

The education secretary, Michael Gove, sees himself as Blairite school reformer. By expanding academies, maintaining...

Not a vintage PMQs

Mar 9, 2011 | Articles, Section: Web exclusive

Who won? Not really a vintage PMQs. However, Ed Miliband asked sharp pointed questions with a theme of the PM being...

Freshers’ fair

Nov 10, 2010 | Articles, Section: Progress Magazine

Browne's proposals lift the cap on tuition fees from £3,290 today to £6,000 from 2012, with universities...

Fair admissions are key to school choice

Nov 2, 2009 | Articles, Section: Article

A plan to crack down on parents lying about their home or religious circumstances as a way of gaining an advantage in...

Education reform

Oct 19, 2009 | Articles, Section: Article

Shadow schools secretary Michael Gove may have peppered his party conference speech in Manchester earlier this month...

Reshuffle reflections

Jun 5, 2009 | Articles, Section: Article

Gordon Brown has sought to re-assert his stamp on government with today's reshuffle, but the big challenge of the...

Report card

May 5, 2009 | Articles, Section: Article

Tuesday's education speech by the prime minister to the National College of School Leadership was talked up as part of...

Lost tiger

Mar 1, 2009 | Articles, Section: Article

The Conservatives used to urge people to look to Ireland to see how to organise business taxes. And until a year ago,...

A growing consensus

Jul 23, 2008 | Articles, Section: Article

There is a growing political consensus about the importance of academies - independent state funded secondary schools...

Learning curve

Jun 2, 2008 | Articles, Section: Article

For years, Swedish social democracy was held up in Labour circles as a model. Yet, more recently the clamour for...

Schools

Mar 17, 2004 | Articles, Section: Article

Labour has delivered more than many realise in secondary education. But because of problems in school funding and...