Mike Ion Articles

Cameronï¿½s Tories: by the rich for the rich

Brown is right, the more Cameron says the less he actually says

Academies are providing life-changing opportunities for thousands of disadvantaged young people

Raising the education-leaving age is crucial to the long-term investment in the talents and abilities of our nation

The Tory party has failed to outline a vision for schooling that will help meet the rising aspirations of the British people

'Cameron's Conservatives: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich?' It is not impossible that Labour will...

Academies work. A brief analysis of this year’s results indicates that the proportion of pupils gaining five or...

Once we get through the silly season when various newspapers publish lists of the ‘best’ and the...

The announcement that Tony Blair will lead a seminar on issues of faith and globalisation at Yale will leave many...

When Len Williams (Labour’s general secretary during the early years of the first two Wilson governments) retired in...

I have never spoken from the platform at conference – perhaps I never will. However if I were to be given the...

As a group, white working class boys are falling further behind their black and Asian classmates in public...

The Labour government ‘contributed almost nothing new or imaginative to the pool of ideas with which men seek to...

Teaching in some of our most challenging schools is not easy. Despite the rhetoric, in some parts of Britain there is...

If you were to choose two words that people today use almost daily that they never used or had even heard of five...

It seems that the idea of creating an additional 200 academies (on top of the 200 already proposed) is proving...

‘We’ve got to keep young people in education after 16, whether it’s part-time or whether it’s full-time, whether it’s...