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The Secret Adviser
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‘Tuition fees reform is a terrible idea and will prove a distraction from the real policy work needed in schools’
Tuition fees reform is bad policy and bad politics – I can only conclude Theresa May’s chief of staff is a Russian Spy, writes our Westminster insider
19 February 2018
‘Theo Agnew has a lot on his plate as new schools minister - including defending the whole academies model’
Replacing Lord Nash with Theo Agnew may appear a like-for-like substitution, writes our Westminster insider. But the new minister will be dealing with a new political reality
28 September 2017
‘There’s every chance the evidence champion will go the same way as John Major’s Cones Hotline’
Tes’ Westminster insider is more than a little cynical about the Department for Education’s latest wheeze
22 July 2017
The Secret Adviser looks into his crystal ball: ‘Expect the death of grammars followed by a lot of hot air’
Oh, and Labour will be expected to do some of the running on education policy
9 June 2017
‘The arrogance of the grammar school proposals in the Tory manifesto is a disgrace’
The lack of details about what the government will do to increase grammar schools is nothing short of disgraceful, argues one Westminster insider
19 May 2017
‘Why is the Labour manifesto so lacking in red meat for the NUT?’
Where is the reversal of academisation in the Labour manifesto? Where is the abolition of league tables? And the end of Ofsted? One Westminster insider has a few ideas...
17 May 2017