What’s gone wrong on London’s roads?
Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists now account for over three quarters of the casualties on London’s roads.
Public Services
Qualified teachers: the Labour policy that makes Tories unfathomably angry
You wouldn’t think that a policy requiring all teachers to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) would be particularly controversial.
Wales removes ‘treadmill of bureaucracy’ for GPs
Doctors’ leaders have welcomed changes being made to GP contracts in Wales which will reduce bureaucracy and improve access for patients to GP surgeries.
The government is cutting firefighter pensions by the back door
The government is trying to force firefighters to work longer and pay more into their pensions.
PISA panic – being honest about what PISA really shows
Every three years the education world is thrown into turmoil as the media report findings from the latest PISA study.
Today’s other education story: faith schools discriminating against poor pupils
New research has found a striking correlation between religious selection in schools and socio-economic segregation.
Why PCCs must go: a better way to do local policing
We must address the failed experiment with Police and Crime Commissioners.
More questions for Michael Gove on free school fraud
Why didn’t the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau refer the case of Kings Science Academy to West Yorkshire police?
Patients must be at the heart of our NHS
Over 200,000 Londoners have waited more than four hours for treatment in London’s A&Es over the past year.
Selling-off the loan book would be the government’s most outrageous attack on students yet, so why aren’t we more concerned?
It shouldn’t be left up to ordinary students to organise against the privatisation of the student loan book. We both need and deserve better from NUS.