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Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture 2025 - Comprehensive Revolution: Completed or Defeated? This year's special 25th Anniversary Lecture takes the form of presentations on the question 'Completed or Defeated?  The Comprehensive Revolution 25 Years On' given by three women. Diane Reay -...

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Give Us Back Our Schools and Solve the SEND Crisis Blog 50 returns to a perennial SEA campaign. John Cosgrove shows how academisation/privatisation is a major factor in the SEND crisis. Richard Hatcher bemoans the loss of community sway it has caused.

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Curriculum Review: An initial SEA response Blog 49

Curriculum Review: An initial SEA response
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No to Year 8 Reading Tests! Blog 48. We imagine how the test was conceived in a 'Yes Minister' style spoof. First, a post setting out the arguments against the test proposal and for a more playful approach to literature.

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Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture 2025 - Comprehensive Revolution: Completed or Defeated? This year's special 25th Anniversary Lecture takes the form of presentations on the question 'Completed or Defeated?  The Comprehensive Revolution 25 Years On' given by three women. Diane Reay -...

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What is behind the White Working Class Obsession? Blog 47 digs beneath Bridget Phillipson's concern with white working class attainment and Richard Hatcher raises issues around the proposal to hand powers over education to combined authorities.

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The Results of the SEA Ballot for the Nomination of Deputy leader were as follows:

Turn Out 53%

Bridget Phillipson 16%

No Nomination 19%

Lucy Powell 68%

The SEA has therefore nominated Lucy Powell for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

The NEC did not advise members.

Has the Love of Learning Been Lost? Blog 46 features Steve Witherden MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Education whose report finds children trapped in poverty and a system draining the excitement of learning away.

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Pupil Well-being crisis. Will more militarism help? Blog 45. Paty Paliokosta look at why pupil well-being in secondary schools is declining and Conor Bollins questions Starmer's commitment to increase militarism in schools

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The Crisis Engulfing our Universities Blog 44. Dr Conor Bollins asks when will Labour tackle the growing crisis, using his experience as a lecturer at UEA, as an example of the mess.

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The SEA endorses this statement issued by our fellow Socialist Society and Labour affiliate group, Disability Labour, which calls on all MPs to vote against The Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill ("Welfare Reform Bill") on Tuesday #WelfareReformBill

We are delighted to announce that our President, Diane Reay's, new book has been published by Policy Press: "Miseducation: Inequality, Education and the Working Classes"

Labour's historic opportunity The two child benefit cap prevents swift results on child poverty.

Labour’s historic opportunity @newstatesman.com‬ [By Spotlight] @cpaguk.bsky.social‬

"The two child benefit cap prevents swift results on child poverty."

This article first appeared in the NS Spotlight on Child Poverty supplement, of 23 May 2025, guest edited by Gordon Brown.

The chronic miseducation of working class children in the UK We are delighted that our 40th Blog is by Diane Reay, our president and Professor of Education at Cambridge, originally published in the LSE blog.

We are delighted that our 40th Blog is by Diane Reay, our president and Professor of Education at Cambridge, originally published in the LSE blog | The chronic miseducation of working class children in the UK

Join the Socialist Educational Association Another education service is possible. The SEA has a long and proud history as the only educational organisation affiliated to the Labour Party. Join today.

The SEA has a long and proud history as the only educational organisation affiliated to the Labour Party.

We offer Individual, Youth and Affiliate memberships.

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Another Education Service Is Possible

Join the Socialist Educational Association Another education service is possible. The SEA has a long and proud history as the only educational organisation affiliated to the Labour Party. Join today.

The Socialist Educational Association (SEA) is @labouruk.bsky.social only educational affiliate. SEA membership is open to all Labour Party members and anyone who does not belong to another political party.

Join the movement for a revolution in education!
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School Accountability: Start Again! Blog 39. The DFE is consulting on new accountability measures whilst OFSTED is encountering unprecedented opposition to its report card proposals. We respond.

Substack [Education Politics] Blog 39 "School Accountability: Start Again!"

The DFE is consulting on new accountability measures whilst OFSTED is encountering unprecedented opposition to its report card proposals. We respond.

Wrack vows to stay put as NASUWT general secretary Ex-FBU boss will continue to fight for his post as union re-opens nominations following a legal challenge

[News] Wrack vows to stay put as NASUWT general secretary @schoolsweek.bsky.social "Ex-FBU boss will continue to fight for his post as union re-opens nominations following a legal challenge " @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social

NAHT to take Ofsted to court over school report cards School leaders’ union issues a claim for a judicial review against Ofsted in response to its proposed changes to the inspection system

NAHT to take Ofsted to court over school report cards @tesmagazine.bsky.social Headteachers’ leaders are taking legal action against Ofsted over the potential impact of its inspection plans on the mental health of school leaders and staff @naht.org.uk

Trump’s spell has been broken The US president is hurting rather than helping ideological allies such as Nigel Farage.

Victory for Australian Labor following the Canadian Liberals' win confirms that Trump is hurting rather than helping the global right (as I wrote back in March). www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

📢 7 DAYS TO GO

On Saturday 10 May, we’re taking to the streets to say: enough is enough.

Cuts. Closures. Crises. It’s time to fight back.

Join us in London for a national rally to protect education now.

✊ Meet: 1PM at Bessborough Gardens
✊ Rally: 2PM at Old Palace Yard

Most say Ofsted reforms are worse, 'alternative' consultation finds Nearly two thirds of respondents to a consultation set up to rival Ofsted’s own on inspection reforms said the changes were actually worse than the current framework. The ‘Alternative Big…

[Ofsted] Nearly two-thirds think Ofsted reforms are worse, ‘alternative’ consultation finds @schoolsweek.bsky.social "Survey launched by Ofsted critics finds 90% of respondents said five-point grading system not fit for purpose" @lydiach.bsky.social

Answering Ofsted’s consultation | National Education Union Guidance for members on how to respond to ‘Improving the way Ofsted inspects education’

Answering Ofsted’s consultation | National Education Union (NEU) @neunion.bsky.social

Defend the Schools Bill! End the Privatisation of Education! Blog 38: Katherine Birbalsingh and her MATS allies are organising opposition to the Schools Bill. Its time to write to your MP. There are alternatives to the growth of privatisation and market forces.

Defend the Schools Bill! End the Privatisation of Education! 📢 [Education Politics] Substack | Blog 38 "Katherine Birbalsingh and her MATS allies are organising opposition to the Schools Bill. Its time to write to your MP. There are alternatives to the growth of privatisation and market forces."

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NEU report on the impact of standardised curricula on teachers | National Education Union Excessive teacher workload will impede any reforms as will dilution of the role of the teacher.

NEU report on the impact of standardised curricula on teachers | National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social

Join the Socialist Educational Association Another education service is possible. The SEA has a long and proud history as the only educational organisation affiliated to the Labour Party. Join today.

The SEA has a long and proud history as the only educational organisation affiliated to the @labouruk.bsky.social

When you join the SEA, you become part of a historic movement to improve education provision in this country.

Join the movement for a revolution in education!

Socialist Educational Association The Socialist Educational Association (SEA) is the UK Labour Party's sole educational affiliate. The SEA belongs to the Socialist Societies.

Please visit the official website of the Socialist Educational Association (SEA) to learn more about who we are and what we stand for.

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Inspection negatively affects the mental health of 57% of members this rises to almost two thirds among teachers in primary schools settings at 64%. #NEU2025 🔗 bit.ly/3RVmRwU