After a positive pitch from Cameron that led on housing and employment, here is a fuller list of what the Tories are offering the public in May.
Free schools and academies are concerned by the threat of creeping municipalisation.
The opening of such a school is associated with substantial gains in performance of the lowest performing primary schools nearby.
The reality is that they can spout educational pie-in-the-sky because they know (as do we all) that they won’t be forming the next government.
Reading the Counter-Terrorism Bill led me to reflect on why my reaction to it is so different from those other Muslims whom I encounter complaining about it.
Yes, academic selection should happen if there’s local demand for it. And no, it doesn’t have to mean a return to the 11 plus.
As next May draws nearer, no political party is yet facing up to the scale of challenge of deficit reduction.
The humbling of Miliband’s star speaker Bill de Blasio shows how education reform divides the progressive coalition, and the limitations of localism.
More freedom. Strong families. New jobs. More giving. This year’s Prosperity Index from the Legatum Institute is a rebuke to the doomsters and gloomsters.
Their pledge of “a grammar school in every town” makes great headlines, but does it add up?
Cameron shouldn’t abandon his campaign on the economy and security.
It is neither paternalistic nor libertarian, but grounded in a “compassionate conservatism” whose roots lie in Adam Smith and Edmund Burke.
The latter need to ask themselves: when did they become the thing they most hate in the world. When did they become LibDems?
The key factor in whether your school gives you a good start in life is luck – that must change.
I have yet to meet a head teacher who would reverse the academy trend, or give up their newly-found independence, particularly their control over staffing and budgets.