Website Archive - Oct 2010
End of 'no touch' rule over-spun
On the eve of the Tory conference, there has been much coverage of the government's plan to end ...
03 Oct 2010
Mixed messages from Tory conference
I've just returned from the Tory party conference in Birmingham where there were some conf...
07 Oct 2010
World education experts meet in Bahrain
Mike Baker reports from Bahrain:
Teachers, academics and ministers from across th...
08 Oct 2010
Labour's new shadow education ministers
Andy Burnham - one of the defeated leadership candidates - is the new Shadow Schools Secret...
08 Oct 2010
Mixed recipes for school system success
Big international education gatherings offer a chance for educators to seek new solutions t...
09 Oct 2010
Is private better than public for schools?
'Can the private sector approach deliver better outcomes for schools than the public secto...
09 Oct 2010
University fees - Cable leaves wriggle room
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has welcomed the Browne Review's proposal to lift the...
12 Oct 2010
The politics behind school reform
The first programme in my latest series 'Need To Know' is now airing on Teachers TV.
...14 Oct 2010
Education quangos on the hit (and saved) list
The government has now published the full list of quangos to be abolished, merged or saved....
14 Oct 2010
More academies and 'free schools' to open
The latest figures on the number of schools converting to academy status were revealed at an acad...
14 Oct 2010
Teachers TV scrapped
The Teachers TV channel is to be terminated by the government from April 2011. The channel,...
15 Oct 2010
Spending Review - watch the small print
Beware the pre-spin ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review on Wednesday. Some people ha...
18 Oct 2010
Free schools in pubs, cinemas or bookies?
The government has published a consultation paper on possible changes to planning regulatio...
19 Oct 2010