School! Huh! What is it good for?

Yazan: sarabedford | 11 February 2009 | No Comments
Categories: education

Following this week’s strikingly similar announcements by both Nick Clegg and David Cameron on their respective party’s education policy, debate seems to have taken off amongst LibDem activists. The main point of argument seems to be around the provision of ‘free’ schools on the successful Swedish model. Nick Clegg has long been a fan of [...]

First battle won on tuition fees

Yazan: sarabedford | 07 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: education

Antony Hook has broken the newsthat last night’s meeting of the LibDem’s Federal Policy Committee voted 14-5 to keep the party’s policy to scrap tuition fees. Antony takes up the story: The people (Centreforum) who wanted us to drop this pledge and back Blair’s fees could still try to bring their policy to a vote on [...]

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