The Welsh Conservatives have unveiled their big idea in the field of education this morning, free schools. Well yes, I know that school education has been free for a very long time but this is not what they are getting at. The plan is to set up schools directly funded by the Welsh Assembly Government so as to give them the freedom to make their own decisions. However, all schools will have to abid...

PROPOSALS for a transformation in Welsh state education will be unveiled today when the Conservatives launch their vision of “free schools”.

Parents of children who regularly truant face having their benefits cut, David Cameron has warned, as he opened the first wave of the Government's free schools. Here are the free schools opening this year.

A Swede tells the Tories that they are wrong to get so overexcited about the Swedish free-school model.

David Laws is interviewed in the current issue of Attain, a magazine focussed on the independent schools’ sector, where he has the following to say on the issue of whether free schools should be permitted to make profits: I think it is important that the people who come in and deliver the education should be

Those who wish to prevent free schools are education monopolists who know that they will not look good when comparisons start to be made, argues David Green.

Free schools are all well and good – but what about the schools that remain? Some CoffeeHousers raise this question in response to my earlier blog, and it’s important enough to deserve a post in itself. Because introducing new schools to compete with council schools is the best way of raising standards for all – and studies around the world prove this. The ‘free schoolsR...

When you try something, you generally give it a bit of time before heralding it as a success, but nooooo. Free schools, those schools that can be opened by anyone from Old Mother Riley and her cow to Mr Montgomery Burns with public money diverted from other existing schools, have been open a week and

The list of the 16 free schools that the Department for Education hopes will open in September 2011 revealed plans for two Jewish schools, one Hindu school, one Sikh school, one Church of England school and two Christian "ethos" schools

Parents of children who regularly truant face having their benefits cut, David Cameron has warned, as he opened the first wave of the Government's free schools. Here are the free schools opening this year.