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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

    A child’s hands with some cubes, a pen and a maths worksheey
  • 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

    David Laws Liberal Democrats 2/10/14
  • 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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