Sentences with phrase «shadow education»

Labour is behind parents who want to set up schools and would «keep the good free schools», the new shadow education secretary insists.
I'm struggling to remember a single thing he's done in his time as shadow education sec.
Labour is «on the side» of parents who want to set up schools and would not shut most existing free schools, the new shadow education secretary insists.
He was a relatively unheard - of shadow education secretary, and was not remotely expected to win.
She is the first shadow education secretary from a north east constituency in almost thirty years.
Instead, our findings suggest that low - achieving students participate in low - quality shadow education which, in turn, contributes to inequality in college access.
We find that shadow education only positively impacts the achievement of high - achieving (and not low - achieving) students.
Labour is behind parents who want to set up schools and would «keep the good free schools», the new shadow education secretary insists.
The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.
The trust was formed in June 2016 and currently comprises one of the most oversubscribed schools in Manchester, Parrs Wood Academy — also the school attended by former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell.
Corbyn also re-affirmed the commitment made by shadow education secretary Angela Rayner to bringing back the education maintenance allowance, and said his «national education service» reforms would be funded with a tax rise.
Powell was subsequently made shadow education secretary.
As recently as June this year, the then shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg pledged that if Labour won the next election it would end the building of free schools and reassert local oversight of academy schools.
Extremely pleased to announce new shadow education team @GordonMarsden @MikeKaneMP @EmmaLewellBuck @TulipSiddiq we shall get to work Monday
At the rally, Labour shadow Education Minister Lucy Powell pledged that opposing these measures would be the fight of this Parliament.
We agree with shadow education secretary Lucy Powell's call for a» pause» and we intend to work with all possible allies including, importantly, parents and governors to defeat these plans.
Angela Burns, Conservative shadow education minister in the assembly, said: «These truly appalling figures show Wales» educational performance has at best stagnated, and at worst declined, and that in educational terms, Labour ministers have wasted the past three years.»
Now that approach is being comprehensively abandoned with a speech from shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg at the Royal Society of Arts.
Some in the party have urged a swift process to deny the Conservatives a chance to define the agenda, but others - including shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt, a potential candidate - have urged a longer period of reflection.
Historian and journalist Tristram Hunt entered Parliament in 2010 as Labour MP for Stoke - on - Trent Central and he became shadow education secretary in 2013.
She was appointed shadow education secretary in 2016 - becoming the youngest - ever holder of that position - and according to the New Statesman has been «increasingly spoken of as a future Labour leader».
«Candid about his tax status» Conservative shadow education spokesman Michael Gove told Channel 4 News he did not believe Lord Ashcroft's tax status could prejudice a fair election.
It comes after shadow education secretary Lucy Powell raised concerns about government and Ucas data showing that 49,120 teachers left the state - funded sector in the year to November 2014, while 48,900 applied for teacher training in the same period.
asked shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg.
When shadow education secretary said something similar at Labour conference, the audience gave him a hard time.
There was of course the inevitable attack on shadow education minister Tristram Hunt's short speech at last week's Labour conference.
Responding to the Sunday Telegraph report, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the party would oppose such a move, while shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said selective schools belonged «in the dustbin of history».
Today shadow education secretary David Willetts welcomed Mr Blair's commitment to the IB but said he «should have been bolder» and also offered state school pupils the chance to study the international GCSE (IGCSE).
Earlier this month shadow education secretary David Willetts affirmed the Conservatives» support for city academies and refusal to build any more grammar schools.
The Westminster bubble has not so much whispered but asserted for a while that former shadow education sec Stephen Twigg would be a goner in the Labour reshuffle, and the rumours came true today when he was one of the first to be officially ditched by Ed Miliband, replaced by telegenic popular historian and teacher Tristram Hunt.
Pat Glass was appointed as a substitute shadow education spokeswoman on Monday only then to resign by Wednesday, setting a new allcomers record for the brevity with which she was in post.
They have profited from the creation of a separate and unequal shadow education system at the expense of students, their families and all taxpayers.»
Bounce... Justine Greening took over and Labour fielded enough shadow education secretaries that many of us wondered when it would be our turn to have a go?
Worldwide shadow education: Outsideschool learning, institutional quality of schooling, and cross-national mathematics achievement
Adam McNicholas was a political advisor to successive shadow education secretaries between 2011 and 2015.
The shift may also lead shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt to change his position on free schools.
«As I'd been a primary teacher I thought it was a portfolio I could hit the ground running with, and I think we have,» says Kane, who praises shadow education secretary Angela Rayner for her work in pointing out the «inadequacies» in government policy.
But just a year later he was back as shadow education minister, from which he resigned in 2007, then successfully fighting the London mayoral contest.
Turning towards Scotland, the former shadow education secretary said that Corbyn's approach would be put to the test next year:
The furore over the suggestion by shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt that private schools need to contribute more to state education or face the removal of their tax breaks has been predictable...
It was back in 2008 that the then shadow education secretary Michael Gove, backed a UK version of an American programme to get ex-servicemen teaching in England's schools.
Labour's shadow education team has lost more than half of its members after another flurry of resignations linked to the party's leadership crisis.
Cardiff West MP and former teacher Kevin Brennan will continue as shadow schools minister, while Yvonne Fovargue, the MP for Makerfield, will retain responsibility for further education and skills as shadow education minister.
Former Labour shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has reportedly told students at Cambridge University the party is «in the s ***».
Grammar schools will be one of the major issues discussed at conference, which runs until Wednesday, and will feature in the keynote speeches of shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and Corbyn himself.
Mr Corbyn suffered the indignity of further shadow cabinet resignations, with shadow education secretary Pat Glass quitting just two days after being appointed to the post saying the situation was «untenable».
Where yesterday's conference speeches from shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt felt like an imbalanced half of a football game; today felt like his comeback tour.
Some observers, including shadow education secretary Lucy Powell, have speculated that the power of compulsion might not feature in the legislation, and could instead be «camouflaged amongst other measures».
And Ed Miliband's former ally Lucy Powell becomes shadow education secretary, with Maria Eagle taking the post of defence secretary.
Labour MP Pat Glass - who was appointed shadow education secretary less than 24 hours ago - has said she will be stepping down as an MP at the next election.
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