Look Left – The Libor scandal, euro joy for Spain & Italy, and the Queen meets McGuinness
Shamik Das looks back at the week’s politics, including our progressive, regressive and evidence of the week.
Search Results for Free schools
Academisation, academisation, academisation
Dr Kim Allen, senior researcher for the Academies Commission, writes about the growing trend toward academisation in our schools.
Think tank Reform’s school academy claim lacks academic rigour
Think tank Reform asked academies “Are you great?”, they said yes, and then think tank Reform said “academies are great”.
Time to rethink our approach to teaching
The RSA’s Louise Thomas writes about their new “Re-thinking the Importance of Teaching: Curriculum and Collaboration in an Era of Localism” report.
Reeves: “We must ensure we pass the test of fiscal credibility”
Rachel Reeves will echo Ed Balls and Ed Miliband’s recent calls for “fiscal credibility” being key to Labour “earning people’s trust back” in a speech tomorrow.
Government’s “quantum leap” in transparency takes us in the wrong direction – Oh Boy
Alex Hern reports on the news that civil servants want to gut the FoI act.
What was hiding behind the boat: Information commissioner is investigating Gove
Lisa Nandy writes about Michael Gove and his dodging the question over whether he’s working with the freedom of information act
For-profit universities have failed in the US, so why import them here?
Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK
Gove’s three priorities? Gove, Gove, Gove
Left Foot Forward’s Alex Hern looks at education secretary Michael Gove’s speech to the Conservative party conference today.
As conference season approaches, economic reality begins to dawn for coalition
With party conference season around the corner, the reality that the economy may not grow as planned is beginning to dawn for the coalition parties.