A Free School for some – paid for by all
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 The coalition celebrated a landmark in education last week. The DFE gave formal…
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Letting the ideology show
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 The coalition plans for an English Baccalaureate and new school League Tables reveal…
White Paper: Black Future
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 When the last Labour government confirmed the need for targets and key stage…
A University of the Real World should be a Labour priority
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Leaving aside David Willetts’ oily platitudes and the obvious embarrassment of Nick Clegg…
Now teaching assistant are the latest to be hit…
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 It was not a totally unexpected decision but the abolition of the School…
What does Michael Gove really think?
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Michael Gove’s keynote speech to the Conservative Party conference was an extraordinary mixture…
Moving on and moving up
By Jim Sweetman The leadership race is over and his conference speech showed that an excellent candidate came…
Back to school
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Michael Gove was going to hit the ground running as education secretary in…
Lessons for leaders
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 There is something disquieting about the speed with which political memoirs arrive including…
A clean race
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Sitting in the foothills of the Pyrenees last week it was hard to…
