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A Year in the life of Glasnost

CPS - 26 October 1988

In the summer of 1987, the Centre for Policy Studies held a conference on change in the USSR.

Aims of Schooling

Oliver Letwin - 26 October 1988

Since the 1870s English politicians have been worrying about the organisation of schools: church or State? Local or National? Comprehensive or selective? Large or small? Sixth form or tertiary? These are choices which have become familiar to every politician.

Away with LEAs

Sheila Lawlor - 26 October 1988

Abolition of ILEA should encourage the government to do ore than merely dissolve a high spending Authority with poor academic results.

Britain's Biggest Enterprise

Oliver Letwin and John Redwood - 26 October 1988

The National Health Service is the biggest enterprise in Britain. It absorbs some £21 billion a year – almost £500 from every adult in the country. It treats almost one hundred thousand patients a day. And it is the largest employer in Western Europe, with just under one million employee – almost twice as many as in our entire civil service.

Choice in Rotten Apples

Mervyn Hiskett - 26 October 1988

For the vast majority of school children, the GCSE is the most important examination of their lives. There can be no doubt that in setting and marking and modes of assessment, in the laying down of syllabuses an the selection of textbooks, a great deal of the ideas of the ‘ new orthodoxy’, building on the consensus of the ‘sixties, has successfully – and disastrously – taken over.

Clear the Decks

David Davies MP - 26 October 1988

Britain’s industrial superiority during the nineteenth century depended upon our control of vital sea routes.

Correct Core

Sheila Lawlor - 26 October 1988

The most marked characteristic of Mrs Thatcher’s governments is the way in which they have changed the nature and premises of political debate.

Could do Better

Eric Ollerenshaw - 26 October 1988

However the recent GCSE results are interpreted, it is regrettably true that the standards and levels of achievement of British school children are just not high enough.

Diamonds into Glass

Elie Kedourie - 26 October 1988

A growing malaise has been afflicting British universities during the last ten to fifteen years, and of late it has intensified.

Errors & Evil of New History

Helen Kedourie - 26 October 1988

The purpose of this paper is to disclose to the general reader some of the ways in which, under the guise of history, which is one of the foundation subjects of the proposed national curriculum, secondary school children are being introduced to a subject very different to anything which their parents are likely to have been taught.