free schools
Free schools performing WORSE, according to Ofsted
Free schools are underperforming compared to all schools inspected by Ofsted.
Are free schools really more popular in Labour areas?
Recently The Telegraph reported that more free schools have been set up in areas controlled by Labour than any other political party.
Labour on welfare and free schools: facing electoral reality
New shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves announced that Labour would be "tougher than the Tories" on benefits, while Tristram Hunt said Labour in government would back a version of education secretary Michael Gove's flagship free schools programme.
The government’s free school programme just got sinister
The more you learn about Sulivan School, the more irrational and unfair the Tory council's proposal to close it looks.
Free Schools: rhetoric vs reality
In May I wrote for Left Foot Forward about the chronic shortage of primary school places in parts of England and how Michael Gove’s free school programme is making the problem even more acute.
Michael Gove, we need to teach less competitiveness and more compassion
Eton has a practice known as "oiling", which as Anthony Seldon has approvingly noted “is learning how to win friends and influence others, and how to clamber over them to get what you want. It's a mixture of ambition, self-confidence and bloody-mindedness.”