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Mike Ion Articles

Labour’s progressive battle

The Labour government ‘contributed almost nothing new or imaginative to the pool of ideas with which men seek to illuminate human nature and its environment’. So wrote the New Statesman in a 1954 biographical piece about Clement Attlee and the 1945-1951 Labour...
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Engines of social mobility

Labour should seek to establish more academies By Mike Ion —In 2003 I wrote a piece for the Times Educational Supplement making the case for academies and suggesting that, eventually, the Labour left that still dominated the party’s education forums and thinktanks may...
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Time for affirmative action

We should look to Texas to balance equity and access to higher education in the future, writes Mike Ion According to a report published by the Sutton Trust this year students who leave some of our highest-performing state comprehensive schools with the equivalent of...
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Schooling for profit?

As Michael Gove begins his education reform plans, Mike Ion takes a look across the pond at how for-profit schools operate in the US

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