Michael Gove
There’s no evidence academy schools raise standards. But was that even their purpose?
The education select committee has undermined the entire basis of the coalition’s education policy
How the coalition is failing to act on ‘time-bomb’ of asbestos in schools
A key government report on asbestos in schools was due in June 2014. Yet it still hasn’t been published. Why?
The government’s A-Level mess is starting to hit home
The loss of AS-Levels is a regressive move that will impact social mobility as well as education.
Tristram Hunt’s Hippocratic oath: a bad policy from a weak shadow education secretary
Attention is now focused on the fallout from Hunt’s policy rather than where it should be - on coalition education policy.
How the coalition is privatising state education
Never mind the future threat of for-profit schools, privatisation of English state schools is already underway.
The Independent editorial that would make Gove proud
Why is the Independent faithfully reproducing Department for Education propaganda?