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    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Coronavirus
      Attainment gap should push schools up the election agenda

      Post-pandemic, pupils’ learning is still badly damaged — particularly in maths and among the most disadvantaged

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    • Saturday, 24 September, 2022
      Kwasi Kwarteng
      Kwarteng’s ideological approach will leave the Treasury with ‘no money’

      Irresponsible, eccentric and regressive, the new government’s economic strategy will pile up debt and worsen inequality

      George Osborne, UK chancellor, and David Laws, chief Treasury secretary, at a press conference in London in 2010
    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Civil Service UK
      Rejecting top graduates is no way to run a government — or a business

      Lessons from finance show the lunacy of Whitehall plans to scrap the civil service ‘fast stream’

      A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shouting orders as stocks crash during Black Monday in October 1987
    • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
      UK politics
      The government’s mystifying failure to ‘level up’ schools

      Research shows pupils in less-affluent UK regions have fallen behind — where is the action?

      Teenaged students  in uniform sitting an exam in a school hall
    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Education
      Gutting the education plan fails our children — Boris Johnson must rethink

      Treasury reductions to recovery package threaten long-term productivity, earnings and social mobility

      Spending more on education is truly an investment
    • Saturday, 13 January, 2018
      UK schools
      More grammar schools and lower tuition fees are not the answer

      The reshuffle at education could mean taking another wrong turn on social mobility

      LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 09: Pupils wait for school buses in the playground after the Mayor of London opened the West London Free School on September 9, 2011 in London, England. The free school, one of the first semi-independent taxpayer-funded schools set up by groups of teachers and parents, is an 11-18 secondary school. It will teach a classical liberal syllabus, with latin compulsory to age 14 with its stated aim to be a "grammar school for all", MP Harold Wilson's original definition of a comprehensive school. (Photo by Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 7 April, 2017
      UK schools
      Schools funding row offers lesson in unfairness

      Tackling a dysfunctional system is a brave move but needs refinement

      Artwork for FTWeekend comment - issue dated 08.04.17
    • Saturday, 4 March, 2017
      UK public finances
      UK reaches socially acceptable limits of austerity

      Planned cuts to education and welfare need to be reversed

      Britain's new Chief Secretary to the Treasury, David Laws (L), and new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, pose for photographers outside the Treasury in central London on May 12, 2010.  New British Prime Minister David Cameron began Wednesday unveiling details of his new historic centre-right coalition government, after finally ending 13 years of Labour rule.   AFP Photo/Carl Court (Photo credit should read Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 21 December, 2016
      UK prisons
      Prison service seeks top graduates with ‘SAS-style mindset’

      Charity scheme shows difficulty of filling officer vacancies in crisis-hit jails

      Programme will allow participants to complete a masters degree while working on the frontline
    • Monday, 8 February, 2016
      UK prisons
      Prime minister launches prison league tables

      Prime minister promises governors more control to address serious problems

      A prison cell
    • Thursday, 30 April, 2015
      UK Election: Future of the Lib Dems
      Lib Dems face Tory offensive in their southwest heartland

      Ten of the 23 seats David Cameron wants to gain for a Tory Commons majority are in the West Country

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    • Wednesday, 15 April, 2015
      UK Election: Future of the Lib Dems
      General election: Clegg declares Lib Dems open to new coalition

      Party leader unveils manifesto designed to allow post-election deal with either of two big parties

      LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 15: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg speaks at the launch of his party's manifesto for the 2015 general election at TestBed1 in Battersea on April 15, 2015 in London, England. The Liberal Democrats have launched their manifesto with a pledge to provide an extra £2.5bn for education as part of their plan for a 'fairer society'. Britain goes to the polls in a general election on May 7. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
    • Monday, 2 February, 2015
      UK schools
      Tory pledge to maintain schools funding amounts to real-terms cut

      Institute for Fiscal Studies calls the promise a ‘watering down’ of policy enacted by coalition

      Cameron Kingsmead School Visit...Prime Minister David Cameron and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan taking part in an experiment in a science classroom with pupils, during a visit to Kingsmead School in Enfield, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday February 2, 2015. See PA story POLITICS Schools. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire
    • Monday, 19 January, 2015
      UK general election
      Talks to form UK coalition must be swift, says Laws

      Lib Dem negotiator for any post-election talks says voters will punish parties that delay

      David Laws Liberal Democrats 2/10/14
    • Thursday, 8 January, 2015
      UK schools
      Give more power to teachers, says former education mandarin

      Warning that Whitehall must step back if cuts are to be achieved

    • Sunday, 28 December, 2014
      UK general election
      Lib Dem minister David Laws attacks Tory plans for spending cuts

      Former Osborne deputy slams “huge policy and strategic blunder” that will alienate voters

      Education minister David Laws is writing the Liberal Democrat manifesto
    • Monday, 13 October, 2014
      UK schools
      School ‘rescue package’ plan branded ineffective and ‘clunky’

      Proposals to reinvigorate failing schools ‘drawn up on the back of a fag packet’

      Park View School in Birmingham which is being investigated as part of allegations of a hardline Islamist takeover plot at a number of Birmingham schools.
    • Friday, 3 October, 2014
      Income tax
      Tax plans show Tories are not compassionate, says David Laws

      Minister says Lib Dems will work with Labour or Conservatives

      Education minister David Laws is writing the Liberal Democrat manifesto
    • Tuesday, 15 July, 2014
      UK schools
      Reshuffle: Nicky Morgan expected to make peace with UK teachers
      Nicky Morgan, education secretary, will be questioned about strengthening safeguards
    • Thursday, 15 May, 2014
      UK coalition government
      Coalition fights ‘zombie government’ claims
      Cameron and Clegg
    • Tuesday, 4 March, 2014
      UK general election
      Liberal Democrats name team to lead coalition negotiations
      Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrat party
    • Monday, 3 February, 2014
      UK schools
      Michael Gove rejects Ofsted cronyism claims
    • Sunday, 2 February, 2014
      UK schools
      UK coalition row over replacement of Ofsted chairman
      Michael Gove
    • Wednesday, 18 September, 2013
      Westminster blogKiran Stacey
      Glasgow cements the Clegg coup
    • Friday, 6 September, 2013
      UK schools
      Interview: David Laws, schools minister

      David Laws on why a new cash injection can help transform schools

      Prime minister David Cameron appoints David Laws to the cabinet
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