Press Release | SEA comment on Labour’s National Excellence Programme
James Whiting, the SEA ‘s General Secretary has welcomed Labour’s commitment to a National Excellence Programme outlined in Keir Starmer’s
Category: Schools
New Facebook Groups | “Give Us Back Our Schools” Campaign
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“Assessment for the Future: Turning the clock back on examinations should not be the way forward” John Bolt
Both GCSEs and A Level results this year have told the same story – a growth in the gap between
Fabian Education Policy Group Fail the Test
The blog by the Fabian Education Policy Group, Put To The Test, fails these tests as to whether it has
SEA Press Release | Labour’s Women’s Conference calls for an end to England’s fractured school system
The Socialist Educational Association (SEA) won a stunning victory at Labour’s Annual Women’s Conference on 27th June when the Conference
Democratisation: Defend and Extend Democratic Education Policy
We need to be clear that realistically no other progressive reforms can be achieved nationally without simultaneously reversing the structural changes made since the Education Act was passed in 1988, and a complete programme of nationalisation and democratisation is implemented in schools, colleges, universities, central service providers and local authorities. It will be a massive undertaking for an incoming Labour Government and in order to achieve it the Labour Party and all those who want to see a truly comprehensive national education system need to work to change the accepted narrative of the last 30 years.
MATs – The Ideological State Apparatus
The Marxist Louis Althusser saw education as part of the ‘ideological state apparatus’ which prepared the working class to accept
SEA Editorial | Give Us Back Our Schools
The recent election results show that Labour needs to carve out a sharply focused alternative vision to the Tories so
