On 29 January, Children’s Minister Liz Truss announced that she would be increasing the ratio of children to childminders. For example, under the proposal, a childminder could be responsible for 6 two-year olds....Read More
While the gay marriage debate dominated Tuesday's headlines, an Evening Standard report, following a leaked Department for Education (DfE) memo, proposed that Queen Victoria could be wiped from the primary school curriculum....Read More
Social mobility is something of a political hot potato at the moment. From David Cameron wanting to “spread privilege” at Conservative Party Conference, to shocking reports that the UK has the worst levels in the Western World, social mobility is often the topic of many an angry opinion piece in broadsheets and red tops alike....Read More
Policy Exchange hosted former Tesco CEO Sir Terry Leahy last week, as I attended my first Westminster event as a new intern at PLMR. As a guest of David Cameron’s favourite think tank the tone of Sir Terry’s talk was unsurprising; advocating the public sector to more closely reflect its private counterpart....Read More
If we put aside the sniping from the usual suspects, is what we see emerging the beginnings of a cross party consensus around education? It would be refreshing and productive if it were. ...Read More
“I am being far more explicit than a Minister in the Coalition has been so far”. Those were the words which Universities and Science Minister David Willetts used during his speech at the Policy Exchange think tank on Wednesday 4th January....Read More
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