Politics

White paper: a roadmap with opportunity and risk for all

Having an end point to our fractured system is welcome, writes Caroline Barlow, but charting a course to that...

JL Dutaut
Caroline Barlow
Politics

White paper: our ambitions depend on the profession’s insights

Strong trusts are at the heart of our ambitions, writes Baroness Barran, and the review stage will ensure everyone...

JL Dutaut
Baroness Diana Barran
Politics

Schools should be more patriotic, and 8 more things we learned from Zahawi

Minister tells MPs white paper will narrow the attainment gap and he's 'open-minded' about where council MATs can open

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker and Samantha Booth
Politics

The ‘evidence-led education secretary’ isn’t being led by the evidence

Professor Stephen Gorard questions the government's case for an all-academy system

John Dickens
Professor Stephen Gorard
Politics

White paper: A welcome return to long-term policy making

It may be unglamorous, but ministers' return to a long-term focus on systems and structures is the right thing...

JL Dutaut
Jon Coles
Politics

Why the parent pledge is much more than a gimmick

Many – even most – schools may already be doing it, but that takes nothing away from the government’s...

JL Dutaut
Jonathan Simons
Politics

White paper: Lack of flexibility could set councils back

Many of the white paper's proposals mirror what we already do, write Kindy Sandhu and Kirston Nelson, but needless...

JL Dutaut
Kindy Sandhu and Kirston Nelson
Politics

White paper: A new era for local authorities and collaboration?

The ambitions for local authorities and a more collaborative system are a bold vision but many obstacles must be...

JL Dutaut
Seamus Murphy
Politics

White paper: All rhetoric and no solutions

All the ambitious vocabulary in the world couldn't hide this document's failure to grasp the real problems facing schools,...

JL Dutaut
Mary Bousted