Elizabeth Truss is Reform’s Deputy Director and Laura Kounine is Reform’s Education and Crime Research Officer. The main political parties have both spoken of their support for the academies programme as though it is the litmus test of educational reform. A new report published by the independent think tank Reform argues that the current academies […]
Andrew Haldenby is Reform’s Director, and Laura Kounine is Reform’s Education Research Officer. Last week’s Conservative Green Paper has divided opinion. We can discount the hostile criticism from most of the teaching unions; their opposition to the very principle of parental choice is steadily pushing them out of the mainstream of the education debate. The […]
Laura Kounine and Elizabeth Truss, Reform’s Education Researcher and Deputy Director, highlight the cost to the country of our desperate lack of mathematicians – as documented in their new report. It is socially acceptable, cool even, to claim that you are “no good at maths” whereas people would be ashamed to admit they couldn’t read. […]