Category: public services
A truly horrible performance by Michael Gove on the Today programme. Criticised for rushing through far-reaching reforms, he replied that there has been 'ample time' for debate and scrutiny, and that, because this is a manifesto commitment, Parliamentary debate will be compressed so that some schools can opt out of local authority control by September.
Let us separate out two issues, which Mr Gove did not allow Sarah Montague to...
After pleasantly surprising Jill Kirby last Friday, Andrew Lansley is at it again, announcing changes to the NHS that are far more radical than anyone expected.
Lansley, Shadow Health Secretary for six years, knows more about the NHS than most and is clearly impatient to make his mark, but, welcome as NHS reform is, there is a whiff of the old-New Labour permanent revolution driven from the top down...
Will Cameron be a Heath or a Thatcher? That was the question posed by Fraser Nelson in his speech to the CPS last month. Education policy will be a key battleground for deciding that question - specifically, how radical or ‘transformative', to use one of the favoured political buzzwords, a Cameron government will be.
It seems that Tory education spokesman Michael Gove has the bit between his teeth at the...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented...
It was depressing, but not surprising, to read of the new data that shows the flatlining productivity of our schools system. The ONS has found that overall value for money - measuring the inputs of record extra spending against the outputs of GCSE results and attendance - was the same in 2008 as in 1996. Of course productivity assessments of this kind are just one way of measuring the...
