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Free schools: winners and losers, by Demos

The new coalition government’s free schools reform is one of their flagship policies. It was given top priority in the Queen’s Speech and is effectively already being rolled out barely two weeks after the new government took office, through invitations to outstanding schools inviting them to apply for academy status. Read more...

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Bitter medicine to come, by Sonia Sodha

So the axe has started to fall – or in the more delicate terms of David Laws, the scalpel has started to slice. Cutting £6.2bn now is more of a symbol of the coalition’s commitment to cuts than something that will have a profound impact on the macroeconomy for the worse or better.  Read more...

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