Children are back at school – and back to being let down by the Tories
A few days ago, millions of children returned to school in my borough and across the country. It…
Education
Angela Rayner & Peter Dowd: Education deserves better than Damian Hinds
It says something about the confidence of a government when they are desperate to minimise attention on their…
Sarah Champion: My recommendations for sex and relationships education
We should welcome the publication of the government’s draft guidelines for relationships and sex education. I am particularly…
Joe Anderson: We were left high and dry when Michael Gove scrapped Building Schools for the Future
As we’ve seen, this week marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of our National Health Service, the exemplar…
Labour’s National Education Service should finally herald the abolition of the 11-plus
When Theresa May first began pushing her plans for a new generation of grammar schools, she managed to…
Free universal breakfast clubs would give every child a chance in the classroom
At the general election last May, Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner rightly committed to a manifesto pledge for…
Why Gove’s GCSE reforms are a national disgrace – and how it happened
Has anyone ever heard a rational explanation for the so-called English Baccalaureate? This is the measure that is…
WATCH: Angela Rayner says another review won’t solve student loan interest rates problem
Angela Rayner attacked the Tory government’s record on higher and further education on The Andrew Marr Show today. “We’ve…
School funding and early years education policy is key to Labour winning the next election
Wherever you looked after the 2017 election, there was talk of a “youthquake”. It was said Corbyn’s Labour…
There is a retention crisis in teaching; here’s how Labour can solve it
As we have been warning for the last seven years, this Conservative Government has created a recruitment crisis…
