Weekly Survey: Oldham West, testing and Clause IV
Labour will select a candidate on Thursday for the Oldham West and Royton by-election, which will take place…
Education
We must not let excessive workload drive teachers out of the profession
Dear Caroline, Thanks for your letter and congratulations on qualifying to teach and on getting your first teaching…
Dear Lucy Powell, I’m a newly qualified teacher who’d like time to teach
Dear Lucy Powell, You’ve just started your role in education. Me too – I qualified in June, and…
New grammar school will harm social mobility says Powell
Lucy Powell has attacked the government’s decision to approve the first selective school in 50 years, accusing David…
Dinner snatchers: Are cuts to infant school dinners the dish of the day?
With November’s Comprehensive Spending Review fast approaching, what is and isn’t mentioned in ministerial speeches at Conservative Party…
Corbyn puts spotlight on education during Scotland trip
Putting money into education is “the single most important investment” a government can make, Jeremy Corbyn today declared…
Powell says Labour will bring academies under control of local authorities
New Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has promised that academies and free schools will not close under a…
Would calling for a ban on private school be electoral suicide?
If I’d had a vote in the last election I wouldn’t have voted Labour. I thought its flagship…
Education is a collective good – it’s time for a National Education Service
When we fail to invest in people their potential is wasted and our economy underperforms. The more we…
Six things we learned from Andy Burnham’s Press Gallery Lunch
Andy Burnham this afternoon became the third Labour leadership candidate to attend a Press Gallery Lunch to speak to…
