The nonsense of the alternative vote
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Sometimes our political system has a real knack of messing up change. The…
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No schools for the future
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 The coalition’s decision to axe the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme…
The ideology behind cutbacks in education
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Ask the man in the street about what is happening to schools and…
Free Schools: Meeting the needs of a few parents and ideologues
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 There has been a lot written in the last week about Michael Gove’s…
Independent schools, charitable status and public benefit
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 It has always appeared to be an anomaly that an independent school which…
Why Labour lost
by Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 We have had a couple of weeks now to sit back and reflect.…
Reinventing the secondary modern?
By Jim Sweetman / @Jimbo9848 The coalition is moving fast on education with an Academies Bill and an…
Education in the firing line
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Everyone knew that education was going to be one of the first targets…
Reasons to be cheerful
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Number one, we are not waking up to a majority Conservative government, swingeing…
What would the Liberal Democrats do for schools?
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Given some of the current polls, perhaps we should decide to take the…
