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Building Schools for the Future Articles

The free schools debacle

The manner in which Michael  Gove and his apparatchiks operate is clearly beginning to unravel – the attention paid to his pet free school programme is clearly distracting the machine of state from the twin problems of a looming buildings crisis and of a real risk of...

Evidence, not dogma: quality, standards and leadership

Shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg MP, tells NAHT delegates in Harrogate that a future Labour government focus in education will be based on 'evidence, not dogma' and that this government has 'failed to get a grip on this urgent crisis in primary school places....

Gove needs to get a grip on education

The reports in today’s Telegraph that there is – as one examiner put it – ‘cheating’ in the exams system where tips are provided for teachers paying around £200 a session is extremely worrying. Although we shouldn’t prejudice the outcomes of the investigation by...

The real ‘new politics’

Working with the opposition on Liverpool council has paid dividends in tough financial times