Education: managing the cuts
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 All across public service, it is inevitable that there will be significant cuts…
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Tory education: Lessons from history
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Do you remember when the Conservative Party was last running education? It is…
Newsnight on education: What did it really achieve?
By Jim Sweetman / @Jimbo9848 Billed as the first big pre-election policy debate, Jeremy Paxman’s excursion into the…
The “sexualisation” of children stems in part from society’s reluctance to provide proper sex education
By Jim Sweetman / @Jimbo9848 A fall in the teenage pregnancy rate was a genuine achievement for the…
Cutting the education budget?
By Jim Sweetman / @Jimbo9848 There are around 17,000 primary schools in the UK and 3,000 secondary schools.…
Extended schools for everyone?
By Jim Sweetman / @Jimbo9848 The notion that schools should be open beyond the normal school day and…
In an era of parental choice, poor children have the fewest choices
By Jim Sweetman /@jimbo9848 The National Equality Panel report, published in January, showed how the gap between rich…
The Tories’ draft education manifesto completely misunderstands modern schools
By Jim Sweetman /@jimbo9848 One of the oddest things about the Conservative Party’s plans for education is that…
School performance tables are a bad way to measure improvement
By Jim Sweetman / @jimbo9848 Labour got saddled in 1997 with using GCSE passes and SAT scores as…
From Harlem to Hackney?
By Jim Sweetman /@jimbo9848 External intervention in education takes many forms but most of them either start with…
