Conservative/Lib Dem Education Policies 2010-

Page last edited: 04/01/2012

Links

1. Click here for Video Updates on all aspects of Coalition Education Policies by Mike Baker and others for Teachers' Media [Excellent]
2. Click here for Mike Baker's Education Website [Excellent]
3. Click here for Something old...something new: understanding Conservative Education Policy. [Detailed academic paper by Sonia Exley and Stephen Ball]
4. Click here  and here for BBC News coverage of new Academies and Free Schools Proposals.
5. Click here for BBC coverage of Academies' examination results
6. Click here and here and here for more BBC coverage of Free School Proposals
7. Click here for BBC coverage of Con/Lib Dem decision not to implement Labour's plan to extend free school meal eligibility
8. Click here for BBC coverage of fears that the Academies Bill will be rushed through Parliament....and here for Michael Gove's denial
9. Click here for BBC coverage of limited applications for Academy status
10. Click here for BBC discussion of extent to which new Academies represent a return to the Grant-maintained schools introduced originally in 1988
11. Click here for BBC coverage of Michael Gove's delight at the scale of interest in Free Schools
12. Click here for BBC coverage of National Audit Office report with reservations about the expansion of the Academies Programme.
13. Click here and here for Observer coverage of new Academies and Free Schools proposals
14. Click here for Observer report of Sutton Trust critique of new Academies proposals
15. Click here and here  and here for Guardian coverage of new Academies and Free Schools proposals.
16. Click here for Guardian coverage of limited applications for Academy status
17. Click here and follow the links for Guardian coverage of all education policies
18. Click here for recent Guardian report on the costs of private education
19. Click here for a critical Guardian article  on Con/Lib Dem  education policies
20. Click here for Guardian coverage of limited interest in Free Schools policy.
21. Click here and here and here for BBC Coverage of attitudes to vocational and technical education from April 2009 onwards
22. Click here for Guardian coverage of LibDem conference vote against Free Schools and Academies
23. Click here for BBC coverage of Government order of a review of charity rules for private schools.
24. Click here for BBC coverage of Ed Balls and Michael Gove on recent education policies.
25. Click here and here for BBC coverage of proposed increases in university tuition fees
26. Click here and here for Guardian coverage of proposed increases in university tuition fees
27. Click here for Guardian article reporting that faith schools favour the middle classes
28. Click here for Guardian's Polly Toynbee on University tuition fees
29. Click here for Guardian coverage of Andy Burnham on Comprehensivisation and here for Fiona Millar critique of free schools etc.
30. Click here for BBC coverage of proposed changes to schools' funding
31. Click here for BBC coverage of threats to Aim Higher scheme
32. Click here for BBC coverage of latest developments of Academies' Programme
33. Click here for Guardian coverage of IPSOS MORI poll on likely reduction in university application from poorer students as a result of proposals for  increased tuitions fees.
34. Click here for Guardian coverage of November 2010 Education White Paper
35. Click here for BBC coverage of November 2010 White Paper
36. Click here for BBC Q and A on Tuition Fees and University Funding and here for tuition fees versus graduate tax
37. Click here for BBC coverage of claims that current government plans to help disadvantaged University students with scholarship funding may be unworkable
38. Click here for Guardian coverage of most recent PISA international educational rankings
39. Click here for BBC coverage of claims that many disadvantaged students will not receive help with tuition fees
40. Click here for BBC coverage of real terms freeze of education spending and claims that pupil premium will have limited impact.
41. Click here for BBC coverage of IFS report that EMA is cost effective
42. Click here and here for further BBC coverage of the pupil premium
43. Click here for BBC report that 10% of schools are now academies
44. Click here for Guardian report that 10% of schools are now academies
45. Click here  for National Audit Office Press Release on Academies and follow the links for the Executive Summary and Full Report [long and detailed] on Academies
46. Click here for BBC coverage of NUS view of most recent Government plans to help disadvantaged students
47. Click here for Guardian coverage of "end of academic education at age 14" 
48. Click here for Guardian coverage of new way of ranking secondary schools
49. Click here and here and here for BBC coverage of 2010 league tables
50. Click here for Guardian coverage of 2010 GCSE results including coverage of English Bac"
51. Click here for Guardian editorial on GCSEs, English bac and vocational education
52. Click here, here and here for BBC coverage of announcement of review of the national curriculum
53. Click here and here for BBC coverage of 2011 Education Bill
54. Click here for further BBC coverage of Academies
55. Click here for Guardian article by Mike Baker on the future of vocational education
56. Click here for the Wolf Report on Vocational Education
57. Click here and here and here for BBC coverage of the Wolf Report
58. Click here for Guardian coverage of Coalition's replacement for EMA
59. Click here for BBC coverage of Coalition's replacement of EMA
60. Click here for BBC coverage of survey of teachers' attitudes toward government education policies and views of Adam Smith Institute
61. Click here for useful BBC item on Faith Schools
62. Click here for BBC report of NUT opposition to Academies
63. Click here for BBC report on "possibility" of more University places for the rich
64. Click here for index of education articles from IFS. An excellent sources containing many relevant articles including articles on the pupil premium, the demise of EMA and the funding of Higher Education.
65. Click here for Guardian report on M. Gove's plans for the expansion of "successful" schools. 
66. Click here for a more sympathetic Guardian article on the expansion of Academies. 
67. Click here for Guardian report on new Admissions Code
68. Click here for BBC report on new Admissions Code
69. Click here for Guardian report of plans to convert "failing" primary schools into academies
70. Click here for BBC report on introduction of higher threshold criterion for "failing" schools
71. Click here for Guardian Report of Andrew Adonis' support for Technical Baccalaureate
72. Click here for Guardian report on violence against schoolgirls
73. Click here for BBC coverage of  Church of England responses to recent education policies
74. Click here for BBC coverage of expansion of apprenticeships
75. Click here for Guardian Higher Education Section [25,000+ articles]
76. Click here for BBC coverage of 2011 Higher Education White Paper
77. Click here for a useful IPPR summary of the first year of Coalition education policies
78. Click here for Mike Baker's Guardian article on the likely impact of Coalition education policies on Social Mobility
79. Click here for Mike Baker's BBC article on whether increased educational spending generates better results
80. Click here for BBC article on axing of vocational subjects from school league tables
81. Click here for BBC coverage of Select Committee Report critical of Government's execution of discontinuation of EMA
82. Click here for Guardian coverage and here for BBC coverage of Select Committee criticism of EBacc.
83. Click here for BBC coverage of Michael Gove and the "educational underclass"
84. Click here for Guardian report on increased take up of EBacc subjects
85. Click here for Guardian report that first new free schools have been set up primarily in middle class areas
86. Click here for Coalition differences re Free Schools
87. Click here for BBC coverage of David Cameron on truanting, benefit reductions and Free Schools
88. Click here for BBC coverage of Michael Gove's queries over OFSTED inspections
89. Click here for BBC coverage of increased pupil premium
90. Click here for BBC coverage of extent to which poor pupils lag behind in low achieving schools
91. Click here for BBC coverage of private contract for free school
92. Click here for BBC coverage of most recent Primary key stage data
93. Click here for Guardian article on progression from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4
94. Click here, here and here for BBC information on new Head of OFSTED
95. Click here for BBC coverage of Michael Gove's criticisms of opponents of academies.
96. Click here for Guardian coverage of variations in attainment of  EBacc
97. Click here and here for further Guardian coverage of EBacc