2004
Labour announces plans for city academies.
Labour announces plans for city academies.
Blair becomes PM and radically changes Labour’s education policies.
Ofsted established to inspect and report on schools.
‘There is going to be a revolution in the running of the schools.’
Sir Keith Joseph creates the foundations for the Tory Party’s education policy.
Publication of the final Black Paper, criticising ‘progressive’ schooling.
Callaghan’s speech highlights the problems besieging schools.
Secondary moderns in terminal decline.
School leaving age raised so children leave when they are 16.