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Education

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, March 2022

Basit Mahmood
16 March, 2022

The news you didn’t seek this week…

Rachel Hopkins MP: Defending BTECs is vital to a progressive skills agenda

Rachel Hopkins
16 March, 2022

‘Under the Conservative Party’s rule, the skills agenda has been nothing more than an afterthought. Apprenticeship starts have fallen by 38%, the number of adult learners has dropped by 4 million’

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support ending the charitable status of private schools, poll finds

Basit Mahmood
22 February, 2022

44% support ending the charitable status of private schools, compared to 15% who oppose any such move.

The government must invest in the early years if it wants to ‘level up’

Ben Cooper
14 February, 2022

‘Without the required investment in services for under-5s and their families, inequalities will continue to open up from the start’

The seeds of the current teacher crisis were sown long before Covid arrived

William Yates
20 January, 2022

‘Schools have borne the full brunt of deprivation’

Children at school development centre

What we can do to tackle racial disparities in our schools

Luna Williams
26 October, 2021

‘There has been a significant widening of longstanding gaps that result in lower outcomes for Black students in comparison with White students.’

5 takeaways from Ed Davey’s conference speech

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2021

Davey was clear about the seats he wanted his party to take, specifically mentioning seats in Cambridgeshire and the Cotswolds, Stockport and Surrey, Hampshire and Hertfordshire.

6 key Lib Dem policy announcements from party conference

Basit Mahmood
19 September, 2021

Party leader Ed Davey has announced a new flagship Education policy on the third day of the party’s conference – Catch-Up Vouchers.

Eton

EXCLUSIVE: Voters support abolishing private schools

Basit Mahmood
26 August, 2021

Polling also found that 58% of those asked supported private schools losing their charitable status if they did not admit a high proportion of students from deprived backgrounds

GCSE results: Gap between poorer and wealthier students continues to widen

Basit Mahmood
12 August, 2021

There was a widening of the gap for poorer students on free school meals, who scored on average 0.1 of a grade lower compared with 2019.

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