He has seen the SNP hold out for a week before swallowing teachers’ impossibly rosy predicted grades in full – and clearly thinks he can do better.
We can expect hard cases to make headlines, and universities to do what they can, to mitigate the most obvious injustices.
Also: Johnson makes ‘plea for the Union’ as he orders ministers to make more visits to Scotland and prevent the SNP taking credit for UK Government policies.
Coronavirus has accelerated progress in the use of technology in education at a rate that was not imagined prior to the crisis.
It’s been suggested that choices need to be made about which businesses should close first, but this isn’t fair to the country’s publicans.
The Prime Minister will be rejected by the aspirational working class that voted for him in large numbers if he cannot win this battle.
There has even been opposition to providing on-line lessons. The closure of schools is further fracturing our already divided society.
Over the weekend, the Prime Minister warned that keeping “schools closed a moment longer than is absolutely necessary” is “morally indefensible”.
The Government is only likely to be emboldened to take the necessary action if it feels that is what parents demand.
We’re aiming to go over work that our children would have been doing, had they been at school – and get them ready for September.
My modest proposal is this: let’s do a major programme of controlled trials to test these ideas, and see what, if anything, makes a difference.
They are five times more likely than average to develop mesothelioma, the disease most closely linked to inhalation of this deadly substance.
Voters will support a balanced narrative about Britain’s past in our schools, but they will want children to feel mostly pride in our past.
We have a university system where 34 per cent of graduates don’t get graduate jobs and which subsidises unlimited courses in media studies.
We have worked with Ofqual to put in place the best possible system.