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Gove plans to push ahead with the academies programme
Tories power ahead with academies programme

By politics.co.uk staff Schools would no longer need to consult a local authority before becoming an academy if the Tories win power, Michael Gove will announce today. The shadow education secretary will map out a rapid conversion process for academies and claim he will bring in a new education bill within days of a Conservative… Read more »

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Brown on crime and Cameron on education
Crime and schools take centre-stage

By Ian Dunt The Tories and Liberal Democrats will lay out their education agenda today while Labour concentrates on crime. The renewed week of campaigning comes a day after David Cameron’s speech to the Tory party spring conference, which was well received by activists but took place against the backdrop of increasingly dire polling results… Read more »