Although the government has made serious moves in the direction of civil liberties – notably cancelling inherited plans to introduce identity cards and an aspiration to end child detention within the asylum system – the announcement of the Freedom Bill is a landmark moment in British government. The previous Labour government passed liberal reforms which changed Britain irrevocably.
Margaret Tulloch from Comprehensive Future sets out the challenges of ensuring fair schools admissions under proposals in the new education white paper
After extensive trailing yesterday across the BBC and other media, Panorama’s investigation of Islamic schools in the UK, ‘British schools, Islamic rules’, was broadcast last night, writes the Quilliam Foundation’s George Readings.
The freezing of the £4.6 billion budget for scientific research could mean a cut of 8.9 per cent in real terms – though it could have been a lot worse, “it’s not as bad as we were expecting” being the common refrain among scientists at a Young Fabians policy network event this week on the impact of the Comprehensive Spending Review in on research and development and science.
Kevin Meagher does some digging and ponders whether Nick Clegg could be about to conjure up £80 million to save Sheffield Forgemasters.
As Nick Clegg prepares to address delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference today, he faces discord over health, Trident, schools and spending cuts.
Michael Gove’s boast that “over 1,000 schools” had applied for academy freedoms have been exposed as wildly off target with the revelation that just over 150 had in fact done so.
The Tories and Lib Dems have just condemned 50,000 children to continue a life in poverty with their decision not to extend free school meals to 500,000 of the poorest families.
The Conservative party’s education plans are under scrutiny today. We are no wiser on how they would pay for their “free schools” or “pupil premium” policy.
In yet another xenophobic article from the Daily Express, this country’s children are portrayed as being under threat by an influx of migrant children.
