The seventh article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The sixth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.
The comprehensivisation experiment begun by the Wilson government helped to bring down the curtain on an age of social mobility.
We kick off a ConservativeHome project on strong families, better schools and good jobs today – indispensable means of achieving a smaller state and a stronger society.
It represents a power-grab by town hall bureaucrats, an attack on families’ common-law rights, and an unworkable extension of the database state.
While Ofsted has expressed regret for the Perry case, it has not admitted that change is a matter of urgency. We must restore reports written in good, clear English.
How can a relative handful of active MPs have sparked so much concern amongst their long-dominant liberal colleagues?
Many voters want moral seriousness, most politicians have difficulty finding the language needed to provide it, but the present Prime Minister thinks he may be able to.
The report shows Caversham Primary School is a good school, and well led and managed. The use of discretion would probably have fixed the issue of an administrative oversight.
The Government’s Action Plan to tackle the disastrous, miserable and ruinous situation that has developed in the provision for special educational needs says nothing about ensuring that everyone who can, learns to read.
From the ballooning power of progressive HR politics to the growth of de facto blasphemy laws, thirteen years of Conservative rule have made little impact.
Overloading our schools with teaching assistants, not uncommonly with two in a single class, is less effective than whole class teaching methods.
The Labour leader has completely failed to factor into his sums the huge costs of displacing fee-paying pupils by forcing up the cost of their schooling.
The eighth article in a new series on ConHome about how government might be made smaller, taxpayers better off and and society stronger – through strong families, better schools and good jobs.