Sentences with phrase «conservative education select»

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«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

Conservative Robert Halfon, the new chair of the education select committee, was quick to spot that, even after cutting # 200m from the free schools budget, there was still # 1.1 bn of savings unaccounted for.

More interestingly, Neil Carmichael, Conservative MP and chair of the Education Select Committee, has also voiced opposition to the idea.

While Conservative grassroots, along with a number of cabinet ministers, support the move, chair of the Education Select Committee and Conservative MP Neil Carmichael has also voice opposition to lifting the ban.

Signs of such deterioration abound, as conservatives push to loosen the grip of governments and unions so as to maximize the freedom of families and schools to chart their own course, and as liberals redefine education reform into a «social justice» crusade, construe today's problems in race and gender terms, and press government to do more to advance and protect selected subgroups — a trend that's been welcomed and in fact quickened by the Obama administration's eagerness to nationalize these endeavors and institute federal regulations that further them.

In tapping Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain has selected an elected official who has supported increased funding for education across her rural, frontier state and voiced support for school - choice programs that appeal to many conservatives.

Conservative MP Neil Carmichael, chair of the education select committee, said he was happy with the idea of Sir David floating ideas, but said he still wanted to see more transparency in the RSC system and national commissioner role.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, said: «When even the Conservative - dominated education select committee calls Theresa May's new grammar schools an «unnecessary distraction», it's time that ministers finally sat up and took notice.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

Robert Halfon, Conservative MP and new chair of the Commons education select committee, was critical of any attempt by schools to skew exam results.