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Ardour And Diligence

Jonathan Simons

Regular policy focussed columns on education policy and politics in England

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Making the Burnham 14-19 vocational education plan work

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/lucy-powell-education-reforms-michael-gove

Honestly. You go away for one week and the Prime Minister announces plans to make seismic changes to secondary education in England.

As I predicted i...

8 days ago
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What I didn’t like about Andy Burnham’s speech

Our new PM gave his first speech as Labour leader on Friday. And I didn’t like it.

Specifically, I didn’t like the backwards looking framing of it.

I have always disliked the “40 years of decline” narrative that he has espoused. It didn’...

24 days ago
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How to cope with future heat waves - retrofitting the school estate

image via: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cx23rd2x54lo

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s been HOT this week. H-O-T.

So hot in fact that it’s been affecting everyday life, despite boomer moaning that This Heat Was Fine In...

a month ago
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What would a Burnham government mean for education? Two thoughts.....

It seems increasingly likely that Andy Burnham will be the new Prime Minister in the next couple of months. We don’t have too much of a sense of what he wants to do on ~~anything~~ education yet but it’s likely that he may want to take a sl...

2 months ago
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To the university sector, with love. Please wake up.

This week’s 102 page Policy Exchange report from Iain Mansfield has generated both a Mail splash and a huge noise within higher education - much of it screamingly oppositional. But what worries me is not what it argues. There are elements o...

2 months ago
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  • Jonathan Simons

    Hello! I’m a Partner and Head of the Education Practice at the consultancy Public First. I've worked in education policy in and around government for almost twenty years. This substack will contain various musings on English education policy.

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