Mossbourne Academy Articles

It is the top 20 per cent of kids that make Hackney’s schools truly comprehensive – and successful Over the summer, Hackney Labour party started our own campaign against grammar schools and other Tory attacks on schools, which we continued into the ‘Education, Not...

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...

New Labour’s ‘investment and reform’ of schools was turning the tide on social mobility A recent spate of studies provide big lessons for Labour’s future. In particular: don’t trash Labour’s record, but learn from past success and adopt the same radical New Labour...

I’ve got passionate views about the sort of school system I’d like to see in the UK. These come from personal experience. I grew up in Kent, an area that still has grammar schools even now, and as a consequence still has secondary moderns (now rebranded as high...