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Schools will continue to help the vulnerable even if the government won’t

Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke has said that he didn’t vote to extend free school meals during holidays in…
Tom Clements
26th October, 2020, 3:07 pm
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What it’s like to be a school teacher during the coronavirus crisis

Teaching, the saying goes, is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. Over the last week, the government has…
James McAsh
24th March, 2020, 7:51 am
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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…
Tom Clements
8th January, 2018, 11:26 am
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Laura Smith: Politics isn’t geared up for people like me – but by being in parliament I can make a difference

The most common questions I am asked is how do you do this job with young children? How…
Laura Smith
18th October, 2017, 9:00 am
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This ideological plan for more academies is as bad as Lansley’s NHS reforms

It is astonishing that, at a time of major cuts to school budgets, the Government would think it…
Richard Watts
16th March, 2016, 5:00 pm
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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…
Naomi Phillips
8th February, 2014, 11:32 am
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A world class teacher in every classroom

One of the many attractions of Ed Miliband’s ‘One Nation’ approach to politics is that it revives a…
Tristram Hunt
31st January, 2014, 7:30 am
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A good school place for every parent in every community – that’s Labour’s mission

Whether Tony Blair knew it or not, when he made that comment on the importance of education he…
Tristram Hunt
13th October, 2013, 10:31 am
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Axing teaching assistants is more about austerity than improving outcomes for young people

An article in the Daily Mail earlier this week suggested that the education secretary Michael Gove is seeking to axe…
Gena Merrett
7th June, 2013, 1:15 pm

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