Barry Sheerman Articles

As I read this collection of essays on the life of Harold Wilson I became acutely aware of the particular influence Harold had had on the whole of my life, from the time I was born. Starting with his key wartime role as a civil servant and moving on to his close...

It is fitting that in the week that the Government has published its new programmes of study for the primary national curriculum that the CBI and Pearson are publishing this important survey. The curriculum is one of a range of important weapons in the armoury of the...

Stephen Twigg told an audience of educationalists today that he intends to utterly transform education in England. He didn’t do this, as his anarcho-bureaucrat Tory opposite number does, by conjuring some glib pet project and hurling it at schools – all Twigg’s ideas...