Why would anyone want to be the “heir to Blair”?
It’s a question that’s popping up numerous times in the comments on Michael Gove’s latest piece for the Spectator. And I’m sure it enters many people’s heads when they hear either Brown or Cameron laying claim to the title.
A short, simple answer might be: “because Blair was right about some things (not everything, but some things)”. For instance – and Gove makes much of this – he was right about the academies programme. That much is made abundantly clear by Richard Tice’s report for the think-tank Reform today.
As the Chair of Governors at Northampton Academy, Tice is reporting from the front-line on these matters. His personal experience is that the Blairite academies model rapidly improves failing schools – and does so in everything from results to application and attendance levels.
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