The Tories won’t let parents have a say in their children’s education
The evidence for sponsored academies improving performance simply isn’t there – but that doesn’t seem to matter
Annie Powell
Bold and right: Labour pledges to make workplace justice affordable
Following the introduction of fees in July 2013 there has been a 66 per cent drop in the number of employment tribunal claims
Lies, damn lies and David Cameron on free schools
The only way that David Cameron can make the case for his policy is by abusing statistics
There’s no evidence academy schools raise standards. But was that even their purpose?
The education select committee has undermined the entire basis of the coalition’s education policy
How the coalition is failing to act on ‘time-bomb’ of asbestos in schools
A key government report on asbestos in schools was due in June 2014. Yet it still hasn’t been published. Why?
What exactly does Ed Miliband think it means to be a ‘working person’?
There is no one type of ‘working person’, and it’s an indictment of our politics that such an obvious point has to be made.
Tristram Hunt’s Hippocratic oath: a bad policy from a weak shadow education secretary
Attention is now focused on the fallout from Hunt’s policy rather than where it should be – on coalition education policy.
Forging a new NHS from the ashes: Labour’s chance to rebuild a British icon
Labour could propose a tax to save the NHS and people would pay it. So what’s the problem?
How the coalition is privatising state education
Never mind the future threat of for-profit schools, privatisation of English state schools is already underway.
The Independent editorial that would make Gove proud
Why is the Independent faithfully reproducing Department for Education propaganda?