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Education belaboured?
ROBERT POOLE dissects Labour’s plans around education
MESSAGE FOR LABOUR TOO: Members of the National Education Union (NEU) on the picket line at Oasis Academy in London in an ongoing dispute over pay last July

HAVING spent my entire career almost working under Tory rule the idea of a change of government should be a welcome relief.

The right-wing press is attempting to whip up hysteria talking about curriculum changes turning schools into sites of social engineering while tax “raids” on private schools are being compared to 1980s pit closures in the Telegraph.

This sounds to me like the Labour Party is upsetting the right people. Can the Labour Party, should it win, be trusted to make real change, though?

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Recruitment and retention

Ofsted

Assessment

Private schools

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