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Tony Lodge - 14 June 2013 - Public Services

CPS Research Fellow Tony Lodge provides an update to his work on rail competition following his CPS report 'Rail’s Second Chance – putting competition back on track'.Rail was one of the most contentious of all the Tory privatisations.  How would it work?  Why split track from train?  Who would manage ...

Tom Burkard - 12 June 2013 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is an education expert, CPS author, Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby and co-founder of the Phoenix Free School. For years, educators have been attacking our GCSEs, and many of their criticisms were spot on. Beyond a doubt, the target-setting mania that flourished when Sir ...

Tom Burkard - 30 May 2013 - Public Services

Tom Burkard, Education expert, author of 'Something Can be Done' and co-founder of the new Phoenix Free School, blogs on the hard slog to get the school approved and why he believes it can inspire the Department of Education to follow the example across the country. Needless to say, we are ...

Tim Knox - 22 May 2013 - Public Services

Following the riots of 2011, the idea of a new Free School staffed entirely by former military personnel was mooted by Tom Burkard and Affan Burki in a report they wrote for the Centre for Policy Studies. Their proposals were originally rejected by the DfE last year. “NEVER SURRENDER!” advised ...

Tom Burkard - 22 April 2013 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby. He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.We count ourselves among the staunchest of Michael Gove's supporters: after all, his ...

Katerina Nicholaou - 26 March 2013 - Public Services

Katerina Nicholaou, an intern with the Centre for Policy Studies and graduate of International Politics from the Univerisity of Surrey, writes on the findings of Tony Lodge's report 'Rail's Second Chance: Putting competition back on track'.  “More competition, greater efficiency and a wider choice of services more closely tailored to ...

Tom Burkard - 07 February 2013 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby. He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove's U-turn on the EBacc is nothing ...

Tom Burkard - 28 November 2012 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby. He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.If Sir Michael Barber and Pearson International are right, Britain's schools have made ...

Serena Crawshay-Williams - 02 November 2012 - Public Services

Michael Gove’s education reforms will go some way to improving the current system, but work still has to be done to ensure the needs of the students themselves are met.The current exam system is certainly not ideal; specifications are so precise students are not given a deserved freedom in their ...

Tom Burkard - 30 October 2012 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby. He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.John McIntosh, the former head of London Oratory, is a key member of ...

Tom Burkard - 01 October 2012 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby.  He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.Teaching unions are baying for blood over the 6+ phonics test - only ...

Tom Burkard - 20 September 2012 - Public Services

Tom Burkard is a Visiting Professor of Education Policy at the University of Derby.  He is the co-author of the Sound Foundations reading and spelling programmes, which are rapidly gaining recognition as the most cost-effective means of preventing reading failure.Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw has taken schools to task for spending the 'pupil ...

Tom Burkard - 22 June 2012 - Public Services

Nick Clegg has vowed to block the re-introduction of O-levels and CSEs. According to a Lib-Dem spokesman, " We are very, very hostile to something that looks like it is going to return to the two-tier system of the past". On cue, leaders of our teaching unions have joined the cry ...

Kathy Gyngell - 07 October 2011 - Public Services

We are in Nick Leeson territory.  This is what Huseyin Djemil warns ...

Ryan Bourne - 25 August 2011 - Public Services

For the 29^th year in a row, the results of A-level students have improved. 44.7 per cent of students now get A* or A in A-level Maths; 57.7 per cent in Further Maths. Next year, a 6 year old will begin studying for the same course. In ...