Don’t put it past Gove –the founder of Carphone Warehouse really could be the next chair of Ofsted
The Tory donor has his own academy chain and a financial interest in selling technology to schools: what could possibly go wrong?
Annie Powell
For all Gove’s talk of parental choice, fewer pupils got their chosen secondary this year
There is increasing pressure on school places and Michael Gove’s policies are making things worse.
Sulivan Primary set to be saved in triumph of local democracy
Still think voting is pointless? A Labour council has just saved an award-winning school which the Tories had planned to close.
No, Michael Gove, disadvantaged pupils are not better served by the Tories
Any politician who is serious about narrowing the attainment gap also needs to be serious about reducing child poverty and creating a more equal society.
The ‘ideologically obsessed zealot’ who ‘secretly’ raided £400m meant for school places: Gove owes us answers
Labour has failed to sufficiently press Michael Gove over his raid of the basic need budget.
‘He lived on field mushrooms and borrowed eggs’: how the coalition is dismantling the welfare state
The coalition is moving toward a welfare system that is surreal in its cruelty, writes Annie Powell.
Food bank bashing: when poverty dares speak its name
The Tories are trying to discredit food banks because the alternative would be to accept that their policies are creating poverty.
Sulivan Primary: Hammersmith and Fulham Council leader responds
Following the decision to close top-performing Sulivan Primary School last month, I wrote about serious questions that two leading councillors had to answer about potential conflicts of interest in closing Sulivan. One of the councillors has now responded.
Scandal at Sulivan Primary: the plot thickens
Two councillors involved in the decision to close Sulivan school have some serious questions to answer about personal interests.
Tory Council to close award-winning primary – so a free school can have its land
The decision to close Sulivan does everything that Tories say they oppose when it comes to education.