And so we welcome another new Secretary of State for Education and I for one am hoping Damian Hinds’ appointment heralds a return to the government’s election promises. It’s been said that Justine Greening was removed from the brief as she did not exactly see eye-to-eye on the Prime Minister’s vision for grammar schools as…
Most people would have felt sympathy for Theresa May when her conference speech went so horribly wrong yesterday. But behind the headlines of the voice-loss and the ‘comedy’ invader was a speech that would have spluttered anyway – cough or no cough. It pains me to say but the Conservatives are letting the opposition dictate the…
I was very much looking forward to attending the Conservative Party Conference this week, keen to hear what our government has planned for the country – and in particular schools and education. But sadly, on day one, the headlines are dominated with Brexit, Boris Johnson and apparent fallings-out within the Cabinet. With the Labour Party…