Brexit Committee questions Ekins and Laws on legal and constitutional aspects
Watch Session Everyone has questions about Brexit. But perhaps the most significant are those being asked by the House of Commons’ Exiting the EU Committee, which, on Wednesday, held its first hearing of this parliament. The committee’s official purpose is to ‘examine...
No Threat to the Common Travel Area from the UK
While the focus on Irish matters in the Brexit negotiations has been on future border arrangements between the Republic and Northern Ireland, the implications for the Common Travel Area (CTA) are starting to get more attention. The issue has been raised, in...
Spielman is right to move Ofsted’s focus onto curriculum – but can the school system step up?
This article appeared in the Times Education Supplement (TES) “There is a serious risk of schools not fulfilling the promise and potential of the 2014 national curriculum or of academies not using their freedoms to achieve the same.” So warns Ofsted’s chief...
Welcome for government’s ethnic outcome audit — but a warning too
We welcome the government’s interest in keeping a close watch on ethnic outcomes in the UK—it is what we have been doing for the past three years at the Integration Hub, now based at Policy Exchange. But it is important that their new initiative, the Race Disparity...