Michael Gove

Claimocracy and the dismantling of public education

Category: FORUM

Ten years on from Michael Gove’s notorious ‘Enemies of Promise’ article which derided the work of education researchers, Helen Gunter considers how the rise of government by assertion erodes democracy.

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NEU members on strike: a struggle for the future of state education

Category: FORUM

Howard Stevenson outlines why huge number of teachers have vote for strike action.

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Mick Lynch

The spirit of resistance: Mick Lynch in conversation with Gary Younge

Category: Soundings

A wide-ranging discussion on trade unions, class, Keir Starmer, climate change, Black Lives Matter - and how to win the next general election for Labour.

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A fully trust-led system?

Category: FORUM

Patrick Yarker introduces the latest issue of FORUM, in which the failings of the academisation policy are anatomised, and rejects the view that teaching is ‘delivery’.

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Clyde Chitty 31 August 1944 – 7 November 2022

Category: FORUM

Patrick Yarker writes on behalf of the FORUM Editorial Board in memory of Professor Clyde Chitty, the journal’s long-time editor, indefatigable in the cause of comprehensive education.

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Call for Contributions – The Ends of Violence

Category: New Formations

A special issue of New Formations: A journal of culture / power / politics

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Call For Contributions – Public Knowledge: the Academy and Beyond

Category: New Formations

A special issue of New Formations: A journal of culture / power / politics.

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The strange return of authoritarian individualism

Category: Soundings

The Truss government recalls a bygone era of hardline economic libertarianism. This is the root of its present crisis.

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Pockets of resistance

Category: FORUM

In commending the latest issue of FORUM, whose contributors explore various kinds of resistance to current education policy from inside the system, Patrick Yarker is glad to be unsettled.

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