Labour shouldn’t offer cosmetic solutions for our education system
Until told otherwise I am going to assume that all teachers have a deep and noble interest in…
Faith Schools
The mess left by the Trojan Horse
The Peter Clarke report into the Trojan Horse allegations in Birmingham schools is an impressive piece of investigative…
LabourList readers say withdraw funding from faith schools – and don’t want to see BME shortlists either
Last week Sadiq Khan said he could consider backing all-minority ethnic shortlists, in order to increase the numbers…
Labour have had a wasted week – we can’t afford any more of them
We are too near the General Election to excuse the lack of focus we have exhibited over the…
Weekly Survey: What do you think about all-ethnic minority shortlists and faith schools?
Sadiq Khan this week suggested that he would support all-ethnic minority shortlists for Labour parliamentary selections, saying he…
Faith-based school admissions are state-sanctioned discrimination
The debate about the role of faith in education has been plunged into the spotlight in recent weeks…
Banning faith schools is ideologically wrong. But in practice, it is worse – it is barbarism.
“All faith schools are Trojan horses. Let’s ban every single one of them,” said the never understated Dan…
Will Labour stop discrimination against teachers in faith schools?
Ed Miliband’s new education chief says ‘All the evidence suggests that the quality of an individual teacher is…
Why is the government letting faith schools interfere in the personal lives of their staff?
Yes, Tony Blair was wrong. The bolstering of faith schools and the consequent upsetting of the delicate existing…
Selective faith schools – why Labour should say no
New Labour left an appalling legacy of the mass expansion of state-funded, discriminatory faith schools. They facilitated the…
