Perhaps the government wants to exclude fraud because it knows that, within a couple of years Covid frauds will have a large upward impact on crime data - if they've bothered to chase them down.… (View Post)

A quiet news day, I take it. The PM is still in place, we are nowhere nearer the 54 letters, and Russia still hasn't invaded Ukraine. On such days, PB usually reverts to either a) Brexit, or b) … (View Post)

Not the DfE. Even worse. (View Post)

That was the original tripartite plan, but the technical schools never really took off apart from in a few areas - e.g. Leicestershire, if I remember correctly, had a proper tripartite system. (View Post)

Agree. But that fixation on grammar schools is not widely spread beyond a few on PB. As I've asked before, why is it that no Tory government, going back to Thatcher, has seriously tried to expan… (View Post)