The row over school spending shows the age of austerity isn’t over
It seems that Rishi Sunak’s instinct is always to cut, cut, cut – even when it’s children who will suffer.
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Gavin Willamson’s attack on Oxford students shows his warped priorities
Rather than haranguing students over the removal of a portrait of the Queen, Williamson should focus on the country’s education…
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Conservative MP Robert Halfon: “The government can’t say there’s no money for education”
The chair of the Education Select Committee discusses how to solve the schools crisis.
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How England’s school catch-up funding falls £13.6bn short
The government has provided just £310 per pupil in England, compared to £2,500 per pupil in the Netherlands and £1,600…
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The row over education spending is a dream opportunity for Labour, but will the party take it?
Keir Starmer has yet to explain how and why his party would spend more on schools than the Conservatives.
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Why Rishi Sunak is to blame for the government’s underfunding of schools
The reason the catch-up funding offered is so low is the austere spending settlement adopted by the Chancellor.
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How to remake Britain: In search of common values
Why we require a “radical reform of British education” to convert schools from narrow exam factories to places of imagination, innovation…
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The dunce of Westminster
Once tipped for the highest office, Gavin Williamson is floundering as Education Secretary – and young people are paying the…
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