Tag: Select Committee

Meeting with the Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon, 26 June

Robert Halfon addresses the APPG for Education

On Tuesday the 26th of June, the APPG for Education was addressed by the Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP. After being introduced by Andrea Jenkyns MP, Robert Halfon told the APPG about his role as Chair of the Education Committee, describing it as ‘the best job in Parliament’. He talked about …

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APPG Lunch with the Chairman of the Education Select Committee

Graham Stuart MP, Chairman of the Education Select Committee, joined the APPG to discuss developments in vocational education, teacher training and the Building Schools for the Future programme. In describing Stuart’s Law, where every innovation in education is successful, he highlighted the value of grassroots innovations and the dangers of trying to apply those innovations …

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APPG Lunch with Select Committee Chairman

In February 2010, Barry Sheerman MP, Chairman of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, addressed members of the APPG. He gave a sense of the continuum in educational policy, as well as his views on how it would develop over the next year.