Tag Archive: Alison Wolf

Policy Watch – What did the Budget do for education?

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25 March  2011 [2011/12] Policy Watch – What did the Budget do for education? The ending of the duty on fuel may have been the 3-star announcement in this week’s Budget but there wasn’t much for the world of education in particular to get excited about. There were two major reasons for this. First, the economic plan for…

Policy Watch – Making sense of Wolf.

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7 March 2011 [2011/9] Policy Watch – Making sense of Wolf. Introduction Almost six months to the day since Education Secretary Michael Gove called on her to help him  with “a radical reform of vocational education,” Alison Wolf has come back with a comprehensive Report laced with 27 recommendations. It challenges a number of traditional…

Policy Watch – ‘Sweating it out.’ Education faces up to a difficult year

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7 January 2011 [2011/01] Policy Watch – Sweating it out. Education faces a difficult year. Introduction There didn’t seem to be much good news in the New Year messages this year. David Cameron suggested it was going to be “a difficult year,” Sir Richard Lambert of the CBI went for “a rocky year,” the Economist…