Godwin’s Law and Labour arrogance
Yazan: Sara | 16 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour
Yesterday we learned that former Labour minister Alan Milburn is probably going to be announced later this week as the government’s social mobility czar. I have two problems with this. Firstly I wish we could just have news, not announcements of things that are going to be announced at a later date. Secondly I hate [...]
Social mobility ain't what it used to be
Yazan: sarabedford | 21 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: education
I was lucky enough to attend a grammar school, the only selective school in the London Borough that I then lived in. If i was lucky, my parents were delighted. Both had left school without any qualifications. My mother had gained a scholarship to the local direct grant school from a working class household, where [...]
