Posts Tagged ‘government policy’
Planning of school places should rest with local, not central, government
Children packed like sardines, foreigners flooding in, temporary classrooms crowding out play space. The language used to illustrate the current chronic shortage of primary school places in England is emotive. And understandably so. The fear of not getting a school place for your child strikes at the heart at every parent. The fact that we […]
There is no plan B for schools
Last month I wrote in the Guardian about Michael Gove’s speech to the Tory Party conference. He opened his remarks by saying he wanted to tell his audience “what was changing”. I was on a train at the time and as I struggled to make a satisfactory internet connection to hear the rest of the […]
