The Twydall Tory (Free subscription) | yesterday
After 11 years of loyal service as a Labour MP, Paul Clark has been made a Minister in Gordon Brown’s most recent reshuffle. Mr Clark now assumes the mantle of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transpor, alongside Jim Fitzpatrick MP, and under Lord Adonis (Minister of State for Transport) and Geoff Hoon MP (Secretary of [...]
The ThunderDragon (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Andrew Adonis has been moved from his position as Schools Minister to the Department of Transport. This has been to the condemnation of both the Conservatives and Lib Dems, who both fear the imminent demise of the academy schools programme, of which Adonis was known to be a champion. It seems that even depsite bringing Peter [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Mike Baker says the removal of Lord Adonis from his job as an education minister marks the end of a policy era.
dalebassett.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
“Everyone who believes in the integrity of the academies programme and the reform agenda in education will be disturbed to hear that Ed Balls has kicked Andrew Adonis out of the education department. The fact that Lord Adonis has been moved from his post only emphasises how this reshuffle is about rewarding cronies and not [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Opposition parties claim that the removal of Lord Adonis as schools minister will undermine the future of academies.
Christian Says (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The new rail minister is to Lord Adonis which is much better news than the appointment of his boss, Geoff Hoon - though to be fair to Hoon, apparently his father and grandfather were both railwaymen. Adonis is a real enthusiast for the railways and even reviewed my book, Fire & Steam, in Prospect http://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/books/fire_steam_feb,08.shtml very favourably, though he could not
Skipper (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I've probably wtitten enough about the reshuffle but the full list, puiblished today , reveals a few surprises. 1. Lord Adonis(pictured), fervent advocate of academy schools, who seemed safe in his niche for the duration of the parliament, has been moved to transport(albeit at a higher ministerial level), a brief with which, I would venture, he has no familiarity whatsoever, or indeed, affinity. The...
icWales (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The Government's academy schools programme has been put in jeopardy by the removal of its chief architect Lord Adonis from the schools department in Gordon Brown's reshuffle, the Conservatives have warned.
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
More details of the government reshuffle have been released. Gay MP Chris Bryant is the new Deputy Leader of the House of Commons.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Six London schools to be first to pilot the initiative set out by schools minister Lord Adonis
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Helped by "Labour's" Lord Adonis apparently. Could someone please tell me what the hell we are doing still indulging people like Lord Adonis? City Academies are bad enough. Now, "Labour" will work with Boris Johnson to implement them. Just what is the point of campaigning for a 4th term Labour government. It now doesn't seem to make any difference where "policy" is concerned. Brown needs to go and...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Andrew Adonis is by no means my favourite minister. While I actually support the city academy scheme, I’m never really impressed with him as a politician in general or some of his policies. However today (if this is true) he has hit on a great policy proposal: Lord Adonis, Education minister - BBC News Lord Adonis unveiled plans to offer primary school pupils one-to-one teaching in maths and literacy...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Academies specialising exclusively in primary school children should be opened, according to Lord Adonis, the schools minister
Don't trip up (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Lord Adonis, the schools minister, has committed the government to expanding the use of academies. He is full of praise for the highly successful model of quasi-independent schools with links to non-state organisations: Adonis, who released provisional figures showing GCSE results at academies had improved twice as fast as the national average this year, said they should become “akin to private schools”,...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
More pushy parents are needed to force poor state schools to improve, education minister Lord Adonis said yesterday.
