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By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting When is buying advantage in the education system wrong? Not when it comes to private tutoring, it seems. I've heard a range of justifications to support those parents and carers who pay for extra tuition for…
By Wes Streeting and Gemma Tumelty As former NUS presidents we are just two of only 54 people who've ever had the privilege of leading the UK's student movement. Today, the 54th holder of that office, Aaron Porter, announced that he will…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting "There is lots of anger about higher education at the moment and I understand it. I am angry too. Here's what makes me angry. Oxford and Cambridge take more students each year from just two schools - Eton…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - Animal Farm, George Orwell The closing line of Orwell's…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Until Thursday night's fantastic local election results, I was one of the Co-operative Party's newest councillors. Elected in a by-election in July, I find myself in opposition to a Conservative-Lib Dem…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Last Friday, I spent the afternoon campaigning with Oona King. Or, more accurately, Oona spent the afternoon campaigning for me. I'm currently contesting the by-election in my home ward: Chadwell, in the…
By Wes Streeting / @WesStreeting The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), created by Labour to support 16-19 year olds whose household income is less than £30,810 per year, is one of this government's great achievements. Research…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Imagine a country with a democratic deficit, where political elites are struggling to find ways of reversing a trend of declining voter turnout. Imagine that the same elites are simultaneously refusing to…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting In the words of Stonewall chief Ben Summerskill, something "historic" happened this week: David Cameron apologised for the piece of Tory hate legislation well known to the LGBT community as 'Section 28'…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting As the Prime Minister embarks on what will hopefully be a radical and ambitious programme of democratic renewal, in the wake of the scandal over expenses, this is a golden opportunity to tackle the crisis…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting As the Labour Party turns its attention away from introspection over its leadership to debating ideas to secure a fourth term, the National Union of Students today launches a radical alternative to tuition…
By Wes Streeting / @wesstreeting Maybe I'm missing something and today's announcements of Cabinet resignations and MPs standing down are part of a well coordinated effort to get 'bad news' out of the way ahead of the launch of Gordon…
