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Annie Powell

The Tories won’t let parents have a say in their children’s education

Annie Powell
8 June, 2015

The evidence for sponsored academies improving performance simply isn’t there – but that doesn’t seem to matter

Bold and right: Labour pledges to make workplace justice affordable

Annie Powell
2 April, 2015

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

Annie Powell
16 March, 2015

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?

Annie Powell
8 February, 2015

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

Annie Powell
12 January, 2015

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’?

Annie Powell
26 November, 2014

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

Annie Powell
20 October, 2014

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

Annie Powell
14 October, 2014

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

Annie Powell
6 October, 2014

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

Annie Powell
25 September, 2014

Why is the Independent faithfully reproducing Department for Education propaganda?

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