David James
@drdavidajames
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I write about schools; Co-editor: 'The State of Independence' | The Critic | CapX | The Oldie | UnHerd | Spectator. 'Schools of Thought' (Bloomsbury) out now.
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Joined July 2014
As @Dannythefink writes in the Times today: she will have to resign.
I didn't come into politics to raise taxes on working people. Labour will not put up your income tax, national insurance or VAT. The Conservatives are the party of high tax.
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Excellent by @SebastianEPayne in @thetimes Bridget Phillipson must let Eton build its schools in the north https://t.co/D4tRecEKuN
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✍ This week's Real Education Policy Reform digest is on exam reform, and why it should be approached with restraint. Feat: ⭐ @daisychristo 🌟 @drdavidajames *️⃣ @AlexJQuigley ✴️ Sir Ian Bauckham CBE ... and the Classic Learning Test! Link below ⤵️
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Catholic Church criticises Labour after VAT raid triggers faith school closures
telegraph.co.uk
Education levy disproportionately affects religious schools
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Samuel Williams, who chanted about putting 'zios' in the ground is a living caricature of the privileged projecting their luxury beliefs: from Tunbridge Wells and reading PPE at Oxford. Most damning of all this is that he said the chant had been 'workshopped'.
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Private schools will absorb just 1pc of Labour’s VAT raid
telegraph.co.uk
Labour knew that tax costs would be passed on to parents and reduce quality of education, memo shows
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The barbarians are not just through the gates they're in charge of the most important buildings, and institutions, in the country.
There is something deeply bizarre about the way in which the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury delight in desecrating their sacred space. It feels almost Freudian. https://t.co/L5js7tUVkm
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Excellent piece here by @kristinamurkett. The SoS seems to despise anything that is different, anything that is excellent. This is the end of the IB in all but independent schools.
Grammar schools, academies, free schools, home-schooling, private schools, now state schools that offer the IB - I’ve written for @SpecCoffeeHouse on how Labour is punishing any form of education that dares to be different:
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Excellent letter from the Head of @SevenoaksSchool More vandalism by this government. Shameful.
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Another terrible decision by @bphillipsonMP: the loss of the IB in state schools will damage educational outcomes in the country. State school kids will pay for Labour’s International Baccalaureate crackdown
spectator.co.uk
What choice do parents of these children now really have after Labour's decision to cut IB funding in state schools?
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You'd think an institution like this could have anticipated such an outcome five years ago.
BREAKING: Princeton has announced it will begin requiring standardized test scores for admissions in the 2027-28 cycle. This leaves Columbia as the only Ivy League school that doesn’t require test scores. Not surprisingly: “The decision to resume testing requirements follows a
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Exclusive, I think: DfE seeks consultants for £500-a-day work to rewrite England’s national curriculum https://t.co/4rBk7XUtMh But would-be drafters of detailed programmes of study warned: you must not use AI.
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VAT continues to re-shape the sector, but this is quite a surprise: Royal Hospital School sold to Inspired Learning Group - see School Management Plus
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I think about this, by Arthur Schlesinger, more often than I used to: 'Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel they are saving the world when they slaughter the heretics'.
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Every word of this is true, by @questingvole We’re all doomed if English literature students can’t read books
spectator.co.uk
It’s a whole new cause of gloom to discover that even students who have actively signed up to study English Literature are struggling to read
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“25,000 pupils forced out of private schools since Labour took power. The decline in pupil numbers since the GE is now at least 25,000 –over EIGHT TIMES the fall the Government predicted by this point. It is clear their sums do not add up on this policy.” https://t.co/LRSjOCX6gR
telegraph.co.uk
Decline in student numbers eight times higher than the Government’s prediction
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Galling to see that European independent schools are directly benefiting from this rubbish legislation that the government hastily introduced: ‘We’ve been inundated’: European private schools report surge in interest from wealthy British parents | Private schools | The Guardian
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