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Anyone interested in education can learn from the Haberdashers Aske’s debacle
The Haberdashers' Aske's Federation scandal exposes Labour’s lack of policy on academies and free schools.
The “Missing Middle” – why we need school commissioners
Free schools are currently operating as an expensive ‘unguided missile’ in the school system with little rhyme or reason as to where they are permitted.
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.
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?