It’s official: Free schools have failed to deliver
Academies – one of the coalition’s flagship policies in 2010 – have not lived up to any of Michael Gove’s big promises, a new report has found.
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Free schools won’t help female apprentices climb the ‘ladder of opportunity’
Higher education needs funding to help close the gender gap
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
Free schools are great…says chair of free school slammed by Ofsted
The Policy Exchange report was conveniently released on the day David Cameron announced 49 new free schools
What should Labour be saying on free schools?
Data to be released next week looks set to reignite questions over Labour’s education policy.
Free schools performing WORSE, according to Ofsted
Free schools are underperforming compared to all schools inspected by Ofsted.
Are free schools really more popular in Labour areas?
Recently The Telegraph reported that more free schools have been set up in areas controlled by Labour than any other political party.
Labour on welfare and free schools: facing electoral reality
New shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves announced that Labour would be “tougher than the Tories” on benefits, while Tristram Hunt said Labour in government would back a version of education secretary Michael Gove’s flagship free schools programme.
This week’s most read: Sinister free schools, benefit cuts for under 25s, and 1940s Britain
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
Free Schools: rhetoric vs reality
In May I wrote for Left Foot Forward about the chronic shortage of primary school places in parts of England and how Michael Gove’s free school programme is making the problem even more acute.