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By Shamik Das / @shamikdas Business leaders have praised diplomas and welcomed the five new subjects being introduced to schools in England today. The diploma, introduced a year ago, combines a strong vocational element with extensive work…
By Mike Ion / @MikeIon Once we get through the silly season, when various newspapers publish lists of the 'best' and the 'worst' secondary schools in the country we will, hopefully, get back to a sensible and reasoned debate about the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the day thousands of students are collecting their GCSE results across the country, Ed Balls has written an interesting piece for the Guardian in which he sets out his ambition for: "a state education…
By Tom Ogg Yesterday's Sunday Times features research based at Oxford University which finds that attending private school artificially increases a students' examination grades, over and above what the same student would get if they…
By Mike Ion / @MikeIon Tory controlled Bromley council is considering using taxpayers' money to subsidise private school pupils whose parents may be struggling to pay the average £12,000 annual fee. Extending support from the taxpayer to…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter "The torch of progressive politics has been passed to a new generation of politicians - and those politicians are Conservatives." Yes, you read that right. It was the opening…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter / @anthonypainter "The torch of progressive politics has been passed to a new generation of politicians - and those politicians are Conservatives." Yes, you read that right. It was the opening…
By Carl Rowlands Phil Woolas' mistake in attempting to tie "brownie points" to "subjecthood" is understandable and yet somehow indicative. The clumsy attempts of the Labour Government to define Britishness as a cultural entity have been…
From @LabourList readers and contributors This is the LabourList "Ideas Box", for all your ideas on policy, action and conduct for renewing the Labour party. It is being kept at the suggestion of a LabourList reader, Thomas Fairfax, and…
By Peter Barnard Thirty years ago, I was introduced to Abraham Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs' and it has always appeared to me, since then, that there is a natural affinity between Dr Maslow's hierarchy, Beveridge's identification of the…
By Mike Ion / @MikeIon Last year Ed Balls ordered an investigation after the Department for Children, Schools and Families revealed that a "significant number" of schools in three sample areas were breaking the statutory admissions code…
By Mike Aistrop I did an article a few weeks back called 'What should Labour be getting on with and how are we going to get there?'. I would like to thank all those that added to the quality of the debate. The purpose of this article is to…
