Fears government reforms could create a “big divide” not a ‘Big Society’
Two of the Big Society’s key reforms, police commissioners and free schools, could tear apart our communities, writes the Runnymede Trusts’s Kamaljeet Gill.
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Show us the money, Mr Gove
Michael Gove has invited existing schools to become academies. But his new announcement explains nothing about the funding gaps for free schools and the pupil premium.
Gove fails to reveal how Tories would pay for pupil premium
Ed Balls challenges Michael Gove on yesterday’s Newsnight to reveal how he will pay for his “free schools” & pupil premium; Gove responds with boorish insults.
The Right’s ideological war on education
Is another unwelcome American import coming to Britain, where the political Right often look to US counterparts for ideological inspiration?
‘Pre-election gimmicks’: How trade unions reacted to the Budget
From missed opportunities to ‘Tory hot air’, trade unions weigh in on the Spring Budget announcements
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds and under-represented groups more likely to drop out of university, research shows
The figures should ‘concern us all,’ the higher education regulator warns
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
Kim Johnson MP: I sit on the committee behind the ‘white working class’ education report. It’s a disgrace
The Education Select Committee’s report shows the Tories couldn’t care less about the white working class.
Prem Sikka: To level up and boost the economy, let’s tax ‘capital gains’ like we do income
Wealthy peoples’ capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than income tax.
Prof Prem Sikka: Sunak’s spending review is austerity-light
For the economy to recover, we need more government investment.